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[lisety]

I run an ecotourism lodging directory and it's very helpful as a marketing tool for me to be able to tell lodges how many times someone clicked on their link on my site. I had a programmer create a database for me to do just this but I just realized that it changes the urls from something like hotel.com to mywebsite.com/counter.php?id=41 so I'm not giving them any link juice, am I? I love the database but now I'm worried that I need to ditch it (and the money I paid) so that I can give a hotel's website a PR boost. Any advice, I'm going

[chrishirst]

Use a permanent redirect from the counter page to the real site.

[lisety]

Thanks for the quick reply. Now I need to figure out how to do a permanent redirect. I read through the post on this forum but I'm still a little lost, guess I have to keep reading...but geez, it's so long! I like simple.

Edited by lisety, 20 April 2011 - 09:33 PM.

[chrishirst]

What server side code is the page using?

[lisety]

I have no idea, I'm a little bit technically challenged The ending the database uses is php and I'm pretty sure it was created using MySQL. Does that help?

[chrishirst]

Every chance it is coded in PHP then

So the code probably simply does a basic redirect then

CODE

header("Location: target URI");
exit();

Which would give a 302 response

Have that changed to:

CODE

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: target URI");
exit();

Which would then be a 301 response to the redirect.