Hi,
Someone recently wanted their link in my directory moved which was in there as a jump link. They accused me of 302 redirects which appears to be a hot topic on the net. After some investigation, I did notice that the jump links are doing 302 redirects. I also checked several other Links SQL sites as they did 302 redirects as well like hotscripts.com for example. I assume the jump script was set up to do it this way or is this a server configuration issue ? I know I can move to a direct 200 status link but I have my own reasons for preferring to use a jump link. One being that my hits counter is updated before the redirect.
So, can someone who understands this stuff a lot better than me, help me to defend the use of these jump links. Are they really a problem at the moment and are we really affecting another site's ranking by using them ?
Thanks in advance,
Peter.
Quote:
I hope you realize the damage that
you can cause by linking to sites using a 302 redirect. Or maybe you are
doing this in order to damage sites in the google rankings? One thing I'd
like to know is why on earth are you linking in the way that you are. Why
can't just do a normal link that results in a code 200. If you persist in
doing it the way you are you may find yourselves in some sort of legal
situation. If you are trying to preserve page rank, then why don't you
just place a robots meta tag in the redirect files disallowing robots, and
then link normally??? What you are doing, in effect, is hijacking the
content and backlinks of the sites that you redirect to.
You can read about this in Webmasterworld.com:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/22754.htm
Note that it says there that if you have to use the redirect, then the
redirection files should be placed in a separate folder with a robots.txt
no follow, no index and also a meta robots tag in each redirection file.
This may prevent the damage. Of course, I would still change your linking
from a 302, 'temporarily moved' meta refresh, to a standard straight link
that returns a 200 code.
Someone recently wanted their link in my directory moved which was in there as a jump link. They accused me of 302 redirects which appears to be a hot topic on the net. After some investigation, I did notice that the jump links are doing 302 redirects. I also checked several other Links SQL sites as they did 302 redirects as well like hotscripts.com for example. I assume the jump script was set up to do it this way or is this a server configuration issue ? I know I can move to a direct 200 status link but I have my own reasons for preferring to use a jump link. One being that my hits counter is updated before the redirect.
So, can someone who understands this stuff a lot better than me, help me to defend the use of these jump links. Are they really a problem at the moment and are we really affecting another site's ranking by using them ?
Thanks in advance,
Peter.
Quote:
I hope you realize the damage that
you can cause by linking to sites using a 302 redirect. Or maybe you are
doing this in order to damage sites in the google rankings? One thing I'd
like to know is why on earth are you linking in the way that you are. Why
can't just do a normal link that results in a code 200. If you persist in
doing it the way you are you may find yourselves in some sort of legal
situation. If you are trying to preserve page rank, then why don't you
just place a robots meta tag in the redirect files disallowing robots, and
then link normally??? What you are doing, in effect, is hijacking the
content and backlinks of the sites that you redirect to.
You can read about this in Webmasterworld.com:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/22754.htm
Note that it says there that if you have to use the redirect, then the
redirection files should be placed in a separate folder with a robots.txt
no follow, no index and also a meta robots tag in each redirection file.
This may prevent the damage. Of course, I would still change your linking
from a 302, 'temporarily moved' meta refresh, to a standard straight link
that returns a 200 code.
302 redirects