Hi, I have a index page which is called index.html. On this index page there is a sitemap page link called sitemap.html. Now this sitemap has a map of all the pages(around 100 pages) listed, that are available in my website. Now some of these links on(around 4 or 5) sitemap when clicked, re-directs the user to the index.html page. Now my question is that will google index those redirect pages? But when I try to prepare a xml sitemap and submit it to google, the sitemap doesn't contain those redirect pages in the xml code. So I am not sure if google will index them. If google doen't index these redirect pages then can anyone suggest a way out to get these redirect pages indexed by google? Note: These redirect pages all have different meta content and also the text matter on the pages are different. Only thing is that these pages have inbuild php code that will redirect the user to the index page when the user visits those pages. Any help will be appreciated. Regards, Sudip
Google will index these pages but as the pages to which they redirect to. for example: page1.html redirects to page2.html google will index two pages. then when you type page1.html on Google search it will show the result -> page2.html
The google spider will crawl your site, starting at the top and work it's way down. If it sees a link, it will follow it. You don't need a sitemap to get all you pages indexed, it will happen naturally. A sitemap may help the spider crawl more efficiently but it's not essential.
Google will eventually remove and ignore the redirect pages. Why do you have the redirect pages any way? Link to the index page directly.
If you are redirecting the web pages using L301 then they will get deindexed and pass the linking value to the other page otherwise if you are using L302 then it will no pass any value as well as it's wont deindex the old pages.