[BNM] Passing pagerank through a redirect

[Alastair James]

Cheers for that.
How widely supported is the canonical tag?

Do all (decent) search engines support it?

Al

2009/5/5 Tim Aldiss <timaldiss at gmail.com>

> Did you resolve this Alastair?
> This sort of stuff can work, a 300 HTTP code is wrong though, should be a
> 301.
>
> The other option is to use the new canonical tag, e.g. link directly to URL
> B from the site he wants to track from
>
> a)      www.domain.com/my-page-I-want-to-link-to.html
> b)      www.domain.com/my-page-I-want-to-link-to.html?visitor=1
>
> Have this canonical tag on both URL a) and b):
>
> <link rel="canonical" href="
> http://www.domain.com/my-page-I-want-to-link-to.html" />
>
> I’m not sure why analytics would not be accurate enough though? Should be
> just as accurate if it’s set up correctly
>
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> 2009/4/29 Alastair James <al.james at gmail.com>
>
> > Hi there...
> >
> > I want to set up a link that passes pagerank (from an external site)
> > to a page on ours. However, I also want to be able to track the click
> > (exactly, analytics not accurate enough)...
> >
> > So if the link needs to pass page rank to this page:
> >
> > www.domain.com/my-page-I-want-to-link-to.html
> >
> > And I set up a redirect script:
> >
> >
> >
> www.domain.com/redirect.php?url=www.domain.com/my-page-I-want-to-link-to.html
> >
> > That redirects using a 300 HTTP code, will that be ok?
> >
> > * Any pitfalls I should avoid?
> > * Is this as good as a direct link for passing pagerank?
> > * Does google frown upon this?
> >
> > Many thanks!
> >
> > Al
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