I got a site on blogger, and I want to hide my Clickbank hoplinks. I want to use html redirect method. What do you think about it? Is someone using it? I found out that search engines don't like html redirects, and I want to know is it going to affect the site, where this redirect is? BTW, this is code if someone's interested <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Your Page Title</title> <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com"></HEAD> <BODY> Optional page text here. </BODY> </HTML>
you have to put rel="nofollow" <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com" rel="nofollow"> This is so the search engines won't crawl your link therefore they won't know about your redirects.
<html> <head> <title>Here is A Title</title> </head> <frameset cols="*,1" frameborder="0" framespacing="0" border="0"> <frame src="http://xxxxx.xxxxx.hop.clickbank.net" border="0" frameborder="0" name="main" noresize scrolling="auto"></frameset> <noframes></noframes> </html> I use this HTML code for cloaking the CB.
pradeep.balua Cloaking is allowed, I am just not sure about Iframe cloaking. himanuzo Is that iframe cloaking? BTW what about html redirect, like the one I've written above? Is it ok for search engines?
Did you not see my post as I said html is SEO safe if you put nofollow in it like this <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com" rel="nofollow"> Iframe is bad its against clickbank and adwords TOS
emon878 Sorry, I've read your post before you edited it Is this html redirect will affect in any way my website where it is located? BTW, I found php redirect as well....don't know which one is better <?php header("Location: http://xxxxxx.publisher.hop.clickbank.net"); ?>
php redirect is better. it redirects the page before it loads, which is faster than META refresh. There is no need to include nofollow on a META refresh. nofollow is to prevent googlebot from passing link juice in backlinks. it has nothing to do with indexing.
And the last question, how is it going to affect the page where this php redirect is? For example, if I write an article on my website and put php redirect to a different website, such as www.example.com/product, at the end of my article
Thats not possible. Php redirect code must be used before any HTML gets output to the server. Redirect is instant, they dont get chance to read your article.
why not use a javascript redirect. You get the best of both worlds. <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- window.location = "http://www.google.com/" //--> </script> if the page fails to redirect then you can add html code to display a click here link, or even SEO keywords.
I generally use a php redirect with a MYSQL function that tracks where the click came from, the product, and the date. It's better than google analytics. This way i can see what product is performing and at what times of the day i get the best results.