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T. Brian Jones
T. Brian Jones

Reputation: 13532

Should I use a 301 Redirect when tracking outgoing clicks?

I currently track outgoing clicks on my site by routing the user through a track.php file. This file records the click, then redirects the user. I assume that this causes problems for search engines trying to follow my outgoing links.

If I do a 301 redirect from my track.php file ( after recording the click ), will this allow search engines to properly follow my outgoing links, even though they route through my track.php file?

Are there problems with this method? Will this look weird to search engines and cause me other unforeseen problems?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 245

Answers (1)

Rohit Chopra
Rohit Chopra

Reputation: 2821

I am not sure where I read this, but someone else presented a question like this a while back. When most search engine crawlers hit your site, they different request headers than a normal user accessing your website from a browser. You could potentially get the USER_AGENT in PHP and display regular outgoing links if a spider hits your website and links to track.php if its actually a user accessing the website.

Just a thought.

Upvotes: 1

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