Perl programmer for hire: download my resume (PDF).
John Bokma Intrusion
freelance Perl programmer

Comments: Redirecting home

0 comments

Some sites redirect a visitor to the home page when a page is visited via for example a search engine. Most likely the address of the referring page is checked and when it doesn't belong to the site the visitor is forced to the home page. Many visitors will give up on trying to find the page back which they intended to visit. Also some browsers don't report the previous (referring) page correctly or even not at all. It is quite likely that visitors using such a browser can't even visit other parts of your site. Redirecting this way undermines the usefulness of search engines and bookmarks.

Read the rest of Redirecting home.

Post a comment

Note that your comment doesn't show up immediately. I review each comment before I add it to this site.

Check the Follow this page option if you want to receive an email each time a comment is posted to this page, including yours. A link to turn this option off will be included with each email.

Internet adresses will be converted automatically. You can use the following notation to specify anchor text for a link: [url=http://example.com/]example text[/url].