Randomize Page

Which redirect to use?

[bobbonew]

Hey guys, I have a website filled with widgets. A fun script I rolled out the other day is a "random" page. You click onto the link, and you get forwarded to a random widget's page.

My question is, I've just been using a standard php header() to do the forward. But when I did a site:foo.com in google, my random script was in there and had all the content of a random widget.

Do I do a 301 permanent? If someone searches for that widget in google and goes onto the random page, they don't actually end up on the intended page, it just randomizes it again.

Should I tell google not to index it at all? I put it in forum signatures all over the web bc I figured it would randomly choose a widget everytime google looked at the page. I don't want to fudge up my serps.

Thanks!

[phranque]

that looks like a url canonicalization problem - as you suggested i would use a specific url for the randomizer and exclude the search engines from that url.
hopefully you have provided an alternate means (navigation, site map, etc) of discovering the other urls containing content you want indexed.