onLoad re-directs

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onLoad re-directs

biggles

8:31 am on May 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

A site that has good rankings in Google has just been re-designed. Pages currently ranking high in Google have been modified so they automatically re-direct to new pages. Re-directs are done using the following:

How does Google view such redirects and will it index the page or follow the re-direct? My view is that this is essentially like fast meta refreshes and when Google catches on the pages will be penalised. What's the general opinion on this please?

le_gber

8:34 am on May 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

I don't think google knows how to follow javascript links, use the WW search to look for I think is 302 redirect (permanent redirect) I believe it's a safer way to tell the spider that a page has moved.

Leo