What status code should I redirect a link with if I still want search engines to index the page? Such that I create /exit/type1 and it goes to X.com, but I want search engines to index the page of /exit/type1 I tried a Redirect 302, but that wasn't working... any suggestions?
Not sure, but I think the only one that works is a Meta Refresh. But I'm not sure if you want to go that way...
Thanks, but it needs to be an immediate redirect, not a met-refresh. I'm doing it via .htaccess, I'm using Redirect 301 and Redirect 302 for a lot of links, but I would love to figure something out where I can index those links and still have them redirect. I thought 302 would do it since that is temporary redirect...but it hasn't been working...
Redirect 301 is for URL that have been moved permanently (and they are handled gracefully by SE). Either 301 or 302 do not normally come with any content (not sure what the official specs say about that), only the HTTP header, so there's nothing to index. And even if there was some HTML served, a SE would likely disregard it as no user could see it (and what's the point of indexing stuff people cannot view ?)
ok....so what WILL work? heh, I don't really care what doesn't work, I just want to know what DOES work.