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Bonusgeek wrote:so doing what I have described above, would that constitute cloakingNo, that is not cloaking. Cloaking is where you show the search engines a page that is different from what your human visitors see. Example — You might show human visitors a trashy 888 landing page, while showing the search engines a keyword-rich page of stolen, scraped content.
What you are doing with your links is fine; this is how many people track the number of clicks on each link. There are multiple ways to do this; using a 301 redirect is a good, safe method. (That is what I use).
Thanks for the clarification Dave.
I;ve been trying to set this up as well. I’ve got html pages set up with a 301 redirect on them and that all seems to work fine.
The trouble i’m having is that it doesn’t register the page as being viewed in statcounter. I think the redirect is taking effect before the statcounter code kicks in to count the hit? Is there any way to show these as half the reason i wanted to set the redirect pages up was to count my exit links.
Cheers
Arn
I wish I could help ya Arnold.
arnoldpalmer wrote:I;ve been trying to set this up as well. I’ve got html pages set up with a 301 redirect on them and that all seems to work fine.The trouble i’m having is that it doesn’t register the page as being viewed in statcounter. I think the redirect is taking effect before the statcounter code kicks in to count the hit? Is there any way to show these as half the reason i wanted to set the redirect pages up was to count my exit links.
Cheers
Arn
Send Simmo! a PM, he is a whizz at doing stuff like this.
Quote:You might show human visitors a trashy 888 landing page, while showing the search engines a keyword-rich page of stolen, scraped content.
LOL – I’ve really laughed a lot…Its not cloaking, but wether or not the search engines will think its alright will depend on how you do the redirect.
google has a hardon for what they call “sneaky” redirects.
Make sure that the user is aware that they are being redirected to a new page.
lots0 wrote:Its not cloaking, but wether or not the search engines will think its alright will depend on how you do the redirect.google has a hardon for what they call “sneaky” redirects.
Make sure that the user is aware that they are being redirected to a new page.
To ensure your inocent redirect is not taken as something else, make sure you use a 301 permanent redirect as oposed to a 302 (temporarily). You may also want to make that page unaccesable to SEs, you can do this by blocking them through your robots.txt.
