Bad idea to use a redirection script to point to outbound links?

b1ng0 · 2005-05-18, 10:54 PM

I have a directory that uses a script to send the user off to the various sites within the directory ( for popularity ranking and other various reasons ) using 302 redirects.. is this a bad idea SEO wise? The site is only a couple weeks old, so I haven't had a chance to see how Google is going to treat it, but Yahoo seems to like it pretty well, it just hasn't been indexing the outgoing links. Is Google going to look down upon my site for doing this though? Tips? Suggestions?

[Edit] I should also probably mention that not only does the site use a redirect script, I also use mod_rewrite rules to make the outgoing links look like they're a page on my site. For example sitename.com/exit/sarah_mcslutty.html is a mask for sitename.com/out.php?id=1337 which redirects to sarahmcslutty.com [/Edit]

Also, the site breaks the links up into pages of 10 alphabetically so basically, any content that gets indexed is going to change as soon as I add another link to the directory.. any ideas of a better way to approach this? I'm basically going to be relying almost solely on search engine traffic for this site so I want everything to be 'proper' before I get the site too far along.

Thanks for any info.
b1ng0

Trigger Happy · 2005-05-19, 08:22 AM

Doesn't seem to affect celebsdb, for example,

http://www.celebsdb.com/Teri_Hatcher/

which I think uses the same thing you are talking about for links to sponsors and is top for many google terms.

Of course doing it that way means you won't get the value of a backlink for any site you link to using redirects.

2005-05-18, 10:54 PM	#1
b1ng0 I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 85	Bad idea to use a redirection script to point to outbound links? I have a directory that uses a script to send the user off to the various sites within the directory ( for popularity ranking and other various reasons ) using 302 redirects.. is this a bad idea SEO wise? The site is only a couple weeks old, so I haven't had a chance to see how Google is going to treat it, but Yahoo seems to like it pretty well, it just hasn't been indexing the outgoing links. Is Google going to look down upon my site for doing this though? Tips? Suggestions? [Edit] I should also probably mention that not only does the site use a redirect script, I also use mod_rewrite rules to make the outgoing links look like they're a page on my site. For example sitename.com/exit/sarah_mcslutty.html is a mask for sitename.com/out.php?id=1337 which redirects to sarahmcslutty.com [/Edit] Also, the site breaks the links up into pages of 10 alphabetically so basically, any content that gets indexed is going to change as soon as I add another link to the directory.. any ideas of a better way to approach this? I'm basically going to be relying almost solely on search engine traffic for this site so I want everything to be 'proper' before I get the site too far along. Thanks for any info. b1ng0

2005-05-19, 08:22 AM	#2
Trigger Happy Internet! Is that thing still around? Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1	Doesn't seem to affect celebsdb, for example, http://www.celebsdb.com/Teri_Hatcher/ which I think uses the same thing you are talking about for links to sponsors and is top for many google terms. Of course doing it that way means you won't get the value of a backlink for any site you link to using redirects.