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pgowder · #1 09-01-2004, 05:39 PM

I love the archive in vB3.x. It has drastically increased our search engine ranking.

However users get confused when they search and see these pages.

Is there a way to have the page detect a real browser from a spider and re-direct them to the thread?

pgowder · #2 09-02-2004, 07:02 PM

Anyone?

Tomek · #3 04-02-2005, 11:07 AM

That would be interesting for me, too. *bump*

morrow · #4 04-02-2005, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tomek

That would be interesting for me, too. *bump*

See if this works. Simply name it, index.php and place it in your root.

I know there is also a way to do this via .htaccess too, but this is simple and I use it on my site (http://www.neflyfishing.net gets redirected to http://www.njflyfishing.com).

Quote:

<?php
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Free Redirection Script By Only PHP www.onlyphp.com
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

$SETUP[siteurl] = "http://www.linknamehere.com/......";

if ($url) {

$lines_array = file($url);
$lines_string = implode('', $lines_array);
eregi("<head>(.*)</head>", $lines_string, $head);

?>
<html>

<head>
<title>Redirecting Now...</title>
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
var VersionString = navigator.appVersion

if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") {
if (VersionString.substring(0,1) >= 1) {
// Netscape 3.0 (or later) browsers go to this location:
location = "<?php echo $url; ?>"
}
}

if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
if (VersionString.substring(0,1) >= 1) {
// Microsoft Internet Explorer users go to this location:
location = "<?php echo $url; ?>";
}
}

</script>
</head>

<body bgcolor=white>

<p><a href="<?php echo $url; ?>"></a>
</body>

</html>

<?php
exit();

} else {

header("Location: $SETUP[siteurl]");
exit();

}

noppid · #5 04-02-2005, 01:06 PM

Redirects are bad IMO. They confuse users.

I'm no expert, but I'd say it would also negate the archives position in the SEs.

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