search engines and redirects

[chris leeds]

I've been told that the meta refresh on an html page isn't appreciated or
followed by search engines. I thought about an asp page with
response.redirect to a page, would that help or would it be seen the same
way? I also thought about the server.transfer, maybe that would be the best
way to go for search engine sake?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Chris,

Response.Redirect and Server.Transfer are not seen by the search engine
robots, only a human would have the ability to notice the change.

However it is better to develop your site where re-direction is not needed
so that you can continue to have FP manage your hyperlinks.

I mainly use Response.Redirect when I post multiple forms to a single script
page for adding/updating/deleting records from a database or passing users
to specific pages based on input from a prior pages, etc., then Redirect is
needed to get the user back or to a specific page.
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