[geeklog-devtalk] portal.php and search engines

[Matthew Cox]

Dirk Haun wrote:

> Somehow, sending a 301 sounds wrong to me. I'm now using a 303 on the

> site in question and will keep an eye on Google's and Googlebot's reactions.

> 

This link has seems to be useful:
http://hugi.to/dev/google/

This link says that google actually penalizes for 303 redirects(not sure 
of the source):
http://elouai.com/redirect.php

Also, I checked google for "soquili center" and the url is now correct 
so 302 may be okay for google now but yahoo.com still shows my url 
instead of the link for "soquili center" (soquilicenter.org)

I changed my portal.php status to 301.  We'll see which works better. 
301 or 303.  The question is will be which one gives better page ranking 
points to the link.

I'm tempted to make portal.php a page with no redirects and a direct 
link for the user to click on and maybe a 5 second meta refresh kind of 
like when you go to download a program off of download.com

-Matthew