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Thanks in advance.
The redirect is defined by the error code set by the web server:
301 Moved Permanently
302 Moved Temporarily
Generally engines are more tolerant of 301's than 302's
When you mentioned parked domain, do you mean a second domain (ie alias) that has exactly the same IP as the first?
And as far as javascript redirects go (you didn't mention), I'm not sure that any SE detects it right now, but any human can.
* a 301 or 302 error. When these pages are hit, the server responds with a error in the HTTP header saying that the page has moved. It then gives the URL that the page has moved to, also in the header. The client's browser automatically forwards to the new page. Search engines are supposed to update their index when they see a 301 error.
* A meta tag that the browser reads and forwards to a new page.
* A javascript program that forwards to a new page
* A server side redirect. In ASP this would be a Server.Transfer. The content is retrieved from another page, but as far as the browser is concerned, the original page was successfully retrieved.
To your question bobriggs, we have several domain names "parked" at a registrar who provides this service. They point to various pages on our business site which is hosted by another service provider.
I was concerned that oingo regularly accesses these pages directed by a CGI script called "domainparkresults" . But looks like nothing to worry about. Once again thanks to all.
<body onmouseover="top.location.replace('http://www.XXX.com')">
you can make the redirect automatic by using the event "onload".
or you can use: onclick
Technically speaking the "onmouseover", "onclick", "onmousemove", etc. events are not considered redirects as they require user action to affect - just as if a link was placed on an image. This "image link", however, is replaced by a link on the whole "body" of the page.
