Hi, I have a question concerning welcome pages. Currently I have a site setup in the following way: Default page : index.aspx Checks to see if a user has a cookie set, if not Refresh to welcome.aspx This page sets a cookie and has an image + some keywords in META tags etc and a link to index.aspx For the users, this gives the result they'll always see the welcome page once, and then not anymore. But now my problem. A search engine spider does not have cookies. They will see the root as welcome.aspx, and index.aspx will never even be indexed. However, we have enough links to have all other pages indexed and Google shows our site on n°1 position for many keywords we target. Yahoo does not however. What is the best solution to this ? 1) Ditch the welcome.aspx page and let everyone come to index.aspx 2) Change logic, make welcome.aspx the default page and refresh if a cookie is set to the index.aspx page 3) euh ... ;-) Thanks for any reply ... ;-) PS: If you want to check the behavior, it's the "Keuken" link in my sig (Dutch site)
SEs really have trouble with cookies, I would got with 1 and ditch the welcome page, you want you index site to be the first thing SEs see and users for that matter, personally i hate welcome pages as they slow down my browsing.