Redirecting googlebot in PHP

[schlottke]

If I want to redirect the googlebot for one page which includes ?ref=xxx to another that does not, what would the code look like to do this, without redirecting any visitors.

[digitalpoint]

Put this on your first line:

if (preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi|yahoo! slurp|msnbot)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.new-location.com/");
exit;
}

That will do it for a few other bots too, not just Google.

[john_loch]

If you want to redirect googlebot only, ensure you're a little more specific than just a referrer that contains 'google'. Referrers can include mediapartners-googlebot, google-proxy, etc etc.

:)

[schlottke]

If Im redirecting traffic from index.php?ref=112 to index.php it redirects

http://www.jrwrestling.com/catalog/index.php/cPath/42 to
http://www.jrwrestling.com/catalog/index.php

Does it not?

[digitalpoint]

Yeah, I would put a test for whatever you are looking for as the only thing you redirect.