Redirect without being a search engine spam
redirect is one of those methods claimed as SEO but actually are search engine spamming. my search around the internet found some methods classified as search engine spam are:
1. use of keywords which are totally irrelevant to the website
2. use of repetitive keywords
3. use of irrelevant words or phrase in hidden text
4. websites contain duplicate content of each other
5. links farm with intention to increase search engine rank
6. serving different page for search engine and human visitor for the same URL
7. redirect
what i’d like to underline here is redirect. not all redirect is considered as spam. the acceptable redirect is the HTTP 301 header. there are many free services out there to check whether a redirect is search engine friendly or not. a few of them are :
1. webrankinfo.com
2. webconfs.com
a few methods to make a friendly redirect are :
1. meta tag
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”>
<html>
<head>
<title>documenting and sharing</title>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″>
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; url=http://www.gregorgede.co.cc”>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”linux”>
<meta name=”description” content=”documenting and sharing”>
</head>
<body>
<p>Loading page… please wait.</p>
</body>
</html>
2. php
Header( “HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” );
Header( “Location: http://www.gregorgede.co.cc” );
references :
http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php
http://www.silverdisc.co.uk/articles/spam-classification
http://www.qoolventure.com/keyword-spam.htm
