Would it be wrong.

I haved searched around a bit...

[imstillatwork]

To redirect a user to a different page based on the referer keywords in the querystring?

I get a lot of searches for long phrases that don't always land on the correct page because of the long phrase. Could I just redirect based on the referer querystring to a more accurate page? I would do it for every visitor, so I would not be favoring the search engines or the visitor... any discussion on this?

[jomaxx]

From a user's, perspective, I don't want to go to the page you THINK I am looking for. I want to go to the page that showed up in the search results, and that contains the exact words/phrase I searched for, and whose snippet I saw. I doubt very much you could put enough AI into that redirect script to improve the user experience overall.

From AdSense's perspective, this could conceivably land you in trouble. AdSense don't like "sneaky redirects". IMO this is mostly related to funneling low-value traffic to high-value pages, but even if that's not your intention this could put you under a microscope if they become aware of it.

Now that I think of it, the Google search engine team also frown on redirects. They really hate people following a link to page A and being shown page B instead.

[aeiouy]

I agree that it would be hard to improve the user experience by doing this.

I think a better course of action would be to make sure your site navigation is such that even if the person lands on a slightly wrong page it is clear to them how to proceed to the right page.

[dazzlindonna]

Or you could do something similar to the way Google says "Did you mean ...?" when you misspell a word. You could have a line at the top of the page that says something like, "If you were trying to find xyz, click here".

[imstillatwork]

great idea donna. It would be safe, and provide another link for the user to find what they are looking for.

I want the user to find what they searched for, and many times their phrase is so generic, with just a few key words, that they end up on the wrong page.

Donnas suggestion could allow me to let the user stay on the result clicked on, or a easy link to a page related to the search, that may in fact be more useful.

I mainly was curious aboutwhat google would have though about it, but I think the link idea would be very safe.

[jetteroheller]

To redirect a user to a different page based on the referer keywords in the querystring?

There are 2 reasons to be removed from Google index for at last 30 days.

Such redirects are one of this 2 reasons.

[jetteroheller]

I would find it a great idea to preload the search box with the same querry, the visitor was coming from the search engine.

But since this is forbidden by TOS, I would have to use my own local search engine for this task.

So what would bring more

Way 1: empty Google search box

Way 2: preloaded own search box -> own search results
(have to study TOS, if on an onw search result page are AdSense ads allowed) -> own page with AdSense

[imstillatwork]

I think I will just build an information box of related lnks