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SEO problems - improvement needed in next version

6/18/2011 2:51:19 PM
PHPRunner General questions
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horsey_kim author

Several sites that I have redone with PHPRunner and used location redirect in index.htm file has lost valuable search engine ratings. What was on the first page of search engines, now are not showing up at all. To find out why, I ran several sites with online meta tag checker and I get this same message:
Found web page with a redirect.

The most search engines do not index web pages with a redirect to a other web page.
Any ideas on how I can correct this without having to create a separate html index page. I have a database for pages, so that users can easily update their website pages online. I changed the forwarding on the index page from login to the actual view page I want to be home page. Is there a solution for this? If search engines are not indexing pages that are generated from a redirect, then this could be a problem.
I suggest that PHPRunner in their next version have an index.php file that is editable like the login page. It be great if you can add snippets from the editor page so that you can tie it to database information to show up on the front page.
I don't think login page should be the first thing that shows up. Why not have an index.php file with login feature that you can customize. 99% of the website I am using this on no one uses the login unless they are editing something on the website. Most people are guest visiting the website.
Anyone have any suggestion to help correct this problem?
Kim

Sergey Kornilov admin 6/18/2011

Instead of link to index.htm simply use the link to the first page of your application (menu.php, login.php or one of list pages).

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mickna 6/19/2011

Hi Kim,
just a few side notes:

  • Search engines do not like a simple redirection as this was used by link farms, low quality sites, etc. Think about a site with a good page rank. You by this domain if it is for sale. Make a simple redirection and redirect the visitors to an add-site, link farm, etc.
  • However, you can use .htaccess if you really need to redirect

    http://www.seobook.com/archives/001714.shtml
  • Last but not least, Google changed his algorithm in the last few weeks to prevent low quality sites showing at top

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380909,00.asp