| re: Google page rank and 'header' redirects
"while_1" <while_1@montana-riverboats.com> wrote in message
news:9be1f7f8.0406100631.6715f20a@posting.google.c om...[color=blue]
> If I have a links page that uses php header calls,
> for each link, to jump to an external page, does
> Google see those links as "internal to my site"
> or do they get counted as links to the redirect?
>
> IE: people ask me to exchange links all the time.
> Sometimes (usually not) I do it, but always with a
> link to in interal-to-my site file that has a
>
> header("Location: http://someothersite.com");
>
> So, in other words, in Google terms, do those
> people get the page rank credit they are seeking,
> when I do it that way?[/color]
The Google searchbot loads webpages like a web browser would and follows any
links it finds. Even if the subsequent pages are redirects. It doesn't store
the redirects, just the final destination.
-William
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