That is so pathetic. 302's are nothing to worry about.
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.
This guy needs to grow up. Simply redirecting people via jump.cgi will NOT affect your Google ranking, or theirs. To be honest, I think they are just trying to stir trouble.
We use jump.cgi on pretty much ALL our sites, and I've never had a problem, whereas someone's Google PR or rankings are "downgraded" or damaged.
Personally, I would just tell this guy/girl that there is nothing wrong with jump.cgi ... and they should be greatful for any traffic you send to them
Cheers
Andy (mod)
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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.
This guy needs to grow up. Simply redirecting people via jump.cgi will NOT affect your Google ranking, or theirs. To be honest, I think they are just trying to stir trouble.
We use jump.cgi on pretty much ALL our sites, and I've never had a problem, whereas someone's Google PR or rankings are "downgraded" or damaged.
Personally, I would just tell this guy/girl that there is nothing wrong with jump.cgi ... and they should be greatful for any traffic you send to them
Cheers
Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk
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