Google and permanent redirects.

Hi all

say for instance i wanted to use a redirect to point a dynamic page which would change once a week.

is it possible tfor me to build this page up in the search rankings?

for instance i use a redirect on www.example.com/redirect.html and point it to a craiglist page then in a week or a month when i do a new listing which will essentially be the same content but a different url i change the redirect so it hits the new listing.

is it possible for me to get the redirect page to rank well in the serps?

using offpage SEO obviously.

your thoughts please

 

you mean cloaking?... i'm pretty sure no one likes that

 

no i dont mean cloaking

cloaking is where you provide two sets of content one for the search engines to spam them with keywords and content and another for what the customer can see

what i want top do is have a permanent url for a changing url

i will use an ebay auction as an example.

if i want to have www.mybestauction.com then once a week i will need to change where it redirects to when the auction is relisted.

my question is can i get www.mybestauction.com to rank for a keyword?

obviously using backlinks as the only source of real SEO.

 

in that way you're really cloak your site...

 

how is a redirect cloaking????

i think you need a lesson on black hat SEO.

Cloaking: Also known as stealth, a technique used by some Web sites to deliver one page to a search engine for indexing while serving an entirely different page to everyone else. The search engine thinks it is selecting a prime match to its request based on the meta tags that the site administrator has input. However, the search result is misleading because the meta tags do not correspond to what actually exists on the page. Some search engines ... even ban cloaked Web sites.

and what i want to do which is a 301 redirect

301 redirect is a method of telling web browsers and search engines that a web page or site has been permanently moved to a new location. Usually a 301 redirect includes the address to which the resource has been moved. Web browsers will typically follow 301 redirects to the new location automatically, without the need for user action.

A 301 redirect should be used whenever a website is moved to a new domain name (URL) so that search engines will quickly change their indeces and, in theory, preserve the search engine rankings that the site had at the previous domain.



now with your new found knowledge and understanding of 301 redirects does anyone know if you can use a 301 redirect permanently to point to dynamic pages where the url changes each week or month or if there is a limit to how long google will rank that page.

 

It is a form of cloaking. Most cloaking is just an advanced 302 redirect that only redirects search engines.

At any rate, if you're wanting a page like that, you can create it easily using this code on a php page:

<?php
header(”Location: http://www.domain.com/temporary-address/temporary-file-name.html”);
exit();
?>

Code (markup):

Where the domain would be changed to whatever you want.

If you had it as your index page, your PR would pretty much change on a weekly basis and would match the sites you were redirecting to. If you want to build your own site independent of the rankings of those sites, I would suggest that you put it on a secondary page (although whatever effect that would have on your site's PR I'm not sure).

And it would be a 302 redirect, not a 301 redirect. 302's are temporary, and 301's are permanent redirects.

For more info see:
internetofficer.com/seo/302-redirect/