Redirection

[DannyP43]

I have a redirector as an index page. This redirects the user to various areas of the site depending on which domain they entered on.

For example, if the user arrives through www.abc123.com the redirector will send them to the page www.abc123.com/xyz.asp

If its www.abcdef.com they are redirected to www.abc.com/def.asp

Does this have any negative effects with regards to being read by the Search Engines?

[Robert Charlton]

Danny - I'm afraid this one would give me nightmares if I thought about it too much, but it sounds like this approach is fraught with problems.

For one, it's bad SEO... How are you going to get legit inbound links to abcdef.com if you are redirecting visitors away?

The engines also don't like optimized redirects that send you to another domain... or at least Google has said that it doesn't and will ban you for it.

I can imagine another hundred potential problems with this setup.

[DannyP43]

Thanks Robert.

So if I create a website on IIS for each domain that points to the main site, rather than using a redirector on the root of the site, will that fix this problem?