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
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