hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to redirect visitors to a certain page if
they come from certain serches.

Example:
one searches for 'widget' and my mainpage shows somewhere in the SERPs. They
click and they need to navigate to the page dedicated to 'widget'.
So now, to make it easier for the visitor, I created a new page about
'widget'. However the page does not show in the SERPs - the main page does.
So what I want is to redirect my visitor from the main page to the 'widget'
page BUT only if they come from a SERP for 'widget'.

Can that be done?
Is that safe for me?

What do you think?

cheers,

wlodi

wlodi wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to redirect visitors to a certain page if
> they come from certain serches.
>
> Example:
> one searches for 'widget' and my mainpage shows somewhere in the SERPs. They
> click and they need to navigate to the page dedicated to 'widget'.
> So now, to make it easier for the visitor, I created a new page about
> 'widget'. However the page does not show in the SERPs - the main page does.
> So what I want is to redirect my visitor from the main page to the 'widget'
> page BUT only if they come from a SERP for 'widget'.
>
> Can that be done?

Yes, you use a script to check the referrer sent through by the browser
(the http_referer - note mis-spelling) and send them to the next page.
This isn't always completely reliable - i.e. you don't get it if you
open the result in a new page / tab, and some software blocks the
referrer being sent through.

> Is that safe for me?

No. This would normally be regarded as 'cloaking' - showing the visitors
a different page from the one the search engine indexed. Best to just
use it to put a link at the top of the page to the more relevant new
page that they can click on.

Soon your other page will be in the search engine index, so you could
just wait.


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wlodi wrote:
> hi,
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to redirect visitors to a certain page if
> they come from certain serches.
>
> Example:
> one searches for 'widget' and my mainpage shows somewhere in the SERPs. They
> click and they need to navigate to the page dedicated to 'widget'.
> So now, to make it easier for the visitor, I created a new page about
> 'widget'. However the page does not show in the SERPs - the main page does.
> So what I want is to redirect my visitor from the main page to the 'widget'
> page BUT only if they come from a SERP for 'widget'.
>
> Can that be done?

Of course, nearly everything can be done. You simply check the referrer
information programatically and do a redirect but it could become quite
heavy on server resources if you do a lot of checks. You could probably
even use something like ModSecurity or mod_rewrite to do this on Apache.

I'm not sure why you don't want them to come to your main page as this
is the one the S.E. has decided is relevant to the search.

----------------------
http://www.abcseo.com/

davidof wrote:

> wlodi wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if it is possible to redirect visitors to a certain
>> page if they come from certain serches.
>>
>> Example:
>> one searches for 'widget' and my mainpage shows somewhere in the
>> SERPs. They click and they need to navigate to the page dedicated to
>> 'widget'. So now, to make it easier for the visitor, I created a new
>> page about 'widget'. However the page does not show in the SERPs -
>> the main page does. So what I want is to redirect my visitor from the
>> main page to the 'widget' page BUT only if they come from a SERP for
>> 'widget'.
>>
>> Can that be done?
>
> Of course, nearly everything can be done. You simply check the
> referrer information programatically and do a redirect but it could
> become quite heavy on server resources if you do a lot of checks. You
> could probably even use something like ModSecurity or mod_rewrite to
> do this on Apache.
>
> I'm not sure why you don't want them to come to your main page as this
> is the one the S.E. has decided is relevant to the search.

Yup, agreed. Also, often one reads the snippet Google (for example)
shows, and how does it feel when one can't find it back because one got
redirected?

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thanks for your replies.
I guess I will not be redirecting my visitors then although, it would
be more comfortable for my users.

cheers,

wlodi

"davidof" <david.george@g-dumpthisbit-mail.com> wrote in message
news:422e382c$0$306$7a628cd7@news.club-internet.fr...
> wlodi wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if it is possible to redirect visitors to a certain page
if
> > they come from certain serches.
> >
> > Example:
> > one searches for 'widget' and my mainpage shows somewhere in the SERPs.
They
> > click and they need to navigate to the page dedicated to 'widget'.
> > So now, to make it easier for the visitor, I created a new page about
> > 'widget'. However the page does not show in the SERPs - the main page
does.
> > So what I want is to redirect my visitor from the main page to the
'widget'
> > page BUT only if they come from a SERP for 'widget'.
> >
> > Can that be done?
>
> Of course, nearly everything can be done. You simply check the referrer
> information programatically and do a redirect but it could become quite
> heavy on server resources if you do a lot of checks. You could probably
> even use something like ModSecurity or mod_rewrite to do this on Apache.
>
> I'm not sure why you don't want them to come to your main page as this
> is the one the S.E. has decided is relevant to the search.
>
> ----------------------
> http://www.abcseo.com/

I have been experimenting with this by limited what is shown on a page based
on the Google search. Here is why. For some reason Google is ranking my
products listing page higher than the specific pages. So if someone searches
on 'red widgets' and reached the products page, it had been showing all
products. Using the refer'r'al information, I can filter the page to only
shows items which match 'red widgets'. The page has a search feature on it
anyway and I can place the search term 'red widgets' into the search box
automatically before the page is displayed to the user.

If I don't, a user may not be likely to scroll through or do there own
search of all the products to find what they are looking for especially if
it was near the bottom. I wonder it this is OK for SE (I don't think they
would know this is happening) and also if it might spook a viewer to get a
filtered list based on a previous page and to see their search terms in the
search box on a different page.

Mike

vMike wrote:
>
> If I don't, a user may not be likely to scroll through or do there own
> search of all the products to find what they are looking for especially if
> it was near the bottom. I wonder it this is OK for SE (I don't think they
> would know this is happening) and also if it might spook a viewer to get a
> filtered list based on a previous page and to see their search terms in the
> search box on a different page.

To me that sounds like you are adding value to the end user.

wlodi wrote:

> thanks for your replies.
> I guess I will not be redirecting my visitors then although, it would
> be more comfortable for my users.

I wouldn't consider it more comfortable.

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On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:41:16 -0300, wlodi <mwlodarskiNO@SPAM.gazeta.pl>
wrote:

> I was wondering if it is possible to redirect visitors to a certain page
> if
> they come from certain serches.

You can do it using PHP easily. Vbulletin does it and highlights the terms
you typed in Google.



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