php header redirecting

[nick]

Sometimes you want to code such a thing that the user is redirected to particular page rather then linking to that page directly.

Like we see when we download some applications. Where there is small amount of time we have to wait before it automatically redirects to the other place.

The code for it is:

<?php
$website = "http://www.nameslot.com";
header("Location: $website");
exit;
?>

The above code is for instant redirect to the given URL in the $website variable.

<?php
$website = "http://www.nameslot.com";
header("refresh: 5; $website");
echo "Please wait you will be redirected in 5 seconds.";
?>

The above code is for redirecting to the specified URL in 5 seconds. You can also print the waiting message while the user is waiting for the page to redirect.

 

[jignesh]

as we redirect to any pages,is this SEO friendly? i mean to say is we are showing other things to visiters and we are redirecting to other page.so as far as SEO is concern i think this will hurt the ranking.what other guys says?

 

[nick]

I have done this thing on one of my sites. http://www.downzine.com where you download the softwares.

The scenario you are mentioning is correct. But I am using rel=NoFolow tag in that links. So no problems for robots as they are not following that links.

 

[jignesh]

ok nick than it will be helpful to use on our site with NoFolow.