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Old December 3rd, 2004, 08:37 AM
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I was just wondering if anyone has had any experience with using PHP header redirects. I know I've read in the past that "redirects" look bad to spiders. Will this affect my rankings?

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I've also heard they are not liked by engines as they are used by spammers. I'd avoid them. The only redirects that are 100% safe are 301 permanent redirects. Even with those, yahoo seems not to follow them, though Google and others do.
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This is right. Google really seems to follow 301 redirects. Even though I directly forbid indexing the redirecting pages in my robots.txt. Google does not index the forbidden redirecting pages but it seems to follow the redirecting links and indexes the result of redirection. The result of redirection is unique for my site so the pages are really indexed through the 301 redirects and have PR by 1 less than mine.

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