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The index page of my site is redirected permanently to another page on my site using .htaccess, I'm messing about with IBP9's spider simulator to see how a search engine would see it; apperently this is what they'd see from the index page:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=./YaBB.pl">
</head>
I've changed the index page (it was totally blank) to have a hyperlink and note to the redirected page, still, the HTML above is all a spider sees.
If I spider the redirected page it's alot more fruitful, but most of my hyperlinks elsewhere (like the one in my signature
) link directly to the root directory, so as they hit the redirect.
Is this ACTUALLY what the spider is seeing? and can I fix this problem without not using .htaccess?
Matt
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=./YaBB.pl">
</head>
I've changed the index page (it was totally blank) to have a hyperlink and note to the redirected page, still, the HTML above is all a spider sees.
If I spider the redirected page it's alot more fruitful, but most of my hyperlinks elsewhere (like the one in my signature
) link directly to the root directory, so as they hit the redirect. Is this ACTUALLY what the spider is seeing? and can I fix this problem without not using .htaccess?
Matt
Plato forgot the nullahedron..
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Ahh.. the problem was simple, the .htaccess redirect went to an index.html page with the above html; I think that page was provided with YaBB; because I don't remember writing it.
Still, problem solved, I just changed the redirect.
Matt
Still, problem solved, I just changed the redirect.
Matt
Plato forgot the nullahedron..
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