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spewn
09-20-2005, 04:51 PM
i've designed a website that features advertisements, like text links and banners...

when you click on any ad link, you are taken to a cgi script that logs the click, etc.

from the cgi, the user is redirected to the appropriate destination url and all is well.

however, i checked on google using site:www.mysite.com and found that many of the links indexed are the links to the cgi...

such as:

www.mysite.com/countClick.cgi?x=ad-link-1

this doesn't seem to help my website increase it's value as a resource...

my idea was to have the ad link lead to a hard .html page, such as:

www.mysite.com/ad-link-1.html

then in the ad-link-1.html page, include:

<meta name='robots' CONTENT='index,nofollow'>

then have a little more about the ad selected plus displaying a "going to ad link 1" image, and 3 seconds later a javascript redirects them to the appropriate link...

this seems to be good to:

1. have a new .html page with keywords in the file name (keyword-rich.html)
2. have a new .html page with keywords in the actual page
3. eliminate the indexing of .cgi counter links.

i figure that the ad-link-1.html page will be indexed and since it will have mostly text on it, the text will ad to my overall site content, etc. but i wonder about the javascript redirect, if it will hurt more...

i have tried this with only 1 ad link, but my site doesn't get enough traffic (yet) to test it...

in any of your experiences, does my idea hold any weight?

thanks.

- g