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Hi guys,
I’m thinking of putting up some pages on my site that redirect to poker rooms with my affilite code. That way, I can link to these pages and people won’t spot that they are ultimately being directed to a poker room. I’ve noticed that a lot of top sites do this.
Would I use a 301 redirect? For anyone who has done this using basic html, did you create a .htaccess file?Thanks,
KevinYes, you would use a 301 redirect. I don’t think you would need to mess with .htaccess unless you wanted to rewrite the URL.
What color hat is that?
White, as far as I know. A 302 redirect would be black hat.
Anyway, basic questions here: to do a 301 correctly, I create a page that redirects to the poker room with the affiliate code in it. If I don’t want to use an htaccess file (and am not using php), how would I go about doing this? Would I use a meta redirect?
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elgoog wrote:What color hat is that?White.
There is nothing underhanded or tricky about using 301 redirects, or about using .htaccess to make URLs look nice. 
Anyway, basic questions here: to do a 301 correctly, I create a page that redirects to the poker room with the affiliate code in it. If I don’t want to use an htaccess file (and am not using php), how would I go about doing this? Would I use a meta redirect?
If you aren’t using php, then I’m not sure how it would be done. I guess I would use a meta refresh , like you suggested. I know the search engines are fine with 301 redirects; not sure how they treat meta refreshes. Maybe check Webmaster World and see if there is any info over there.
HTML redirect is rather simple, just put this in the page you would like redirected:
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Not sure how SE’s feel about it, though.
I think SEs don’t like using a meta refresh command, so I just used a .htaccess file instead. I’ll see what happens to my SE rankings.
