one thing that can help is putting the redirect at the bottom of the
page.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Bailey [mailto:sue(at)bartandsue.co.uk]
Sent: 10 August 2000 11:39
To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org; Adrian Harris
Subject: Re: Browser Redirect


Some search engines (Altavista for one) state that they will not list
pages
which are solely there to redirect the browser, with no actual output to
the
window, so be careful with this one, it depends how you're using the
redirect.

Sue

> Hi,
> Norm wrote:
> >What if any does a browser redirect script have on search engines ?
> >I am assuming the script page would be named index.html and the other
> >pages depending upon browser type would be index1.html, index2.html
etc.
>
> I've recently used a redirect script fro the first time, and assume I
can
> add the metatags and keywords to the index.htm page and be registered
OK.
> Maybe I'm off base here!
>
> Best wishes,
> Adrian Harris.
>
> http://www.gn.apc.org/design

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