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digiguy
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digiguy
Posted Jan 08, 2009 - 2:14 PM:

Hello

At present my links if clicked on would open up a more detailed page with Alexa info, etc.
I would like to know how I could avoid this step and send the user directly to remote site eg.:

http://www.we-rate.com/link.php?id=83

One extra step I would like a htaccess re-write for this to show up as:

http://www.we-rate.com/go83.html

Some sites don't directly carry out redirect but have a page with META REFRESH to do this which appears to do better in Google's eyes.

Thx, Joe

Paul
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Location: Diamond Springs, California

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Paul
Posted Jan 11, 2009 - 2:31 AM:

I don't understand. The link you gave goes directly to the remote site, yet you're asking me how to have it go directly to the remote site. And you say you links open to the details page, but that's not how it normally works for links that include a URL, it goes directly to the site unless the person specifically clicks the details link.

Google strongly recommends 301 redirects. Meta refreshes may or may not work -- if they have a delay of zero, some of the smarter search engines will pretend that they're 301 redirects... with a longer delay, I believe all search engines will simply ignore them.

Obviously using the actual URL instead of any redirect the best for search engines, though.
digiguy
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digiguy
Posted Jan 18, 2009 - 6:21 AM:

Hi Paul,

Everything is perfect as always. smiling face
I just didn't know about {LINKID} to hide links.
Originally I had all my links openning to Details Page first and from there could get to remote site.
Now I have the one click solution ie. {LINKID} implemented and below it the optional Details Page.

And yes, you're alright about Metarefresh as anything less than 3 secs could get treated differently.
I am sticking to your solution for now.... smiling face

Thx, Joe
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