Can you 301 redirect Yahoo & Bing but not Google?

RedPanda9 · Jun 14, 2012

I want to 301 redirect an older site that has been penalized in Google, but does well in the other search engines, to a new site. The site is currently de-indexed on G by me. It's an exact copy of the new site so I removed it to avoid duplicate content.

I'm not sure if I blocking the googlebot from indexing and following will block it before it redirects. Anyone have any experience with this?

Yahoo/MSN bot --->1st site--->redirect...>New site!

Googlebot--->No Index, No Follow, No Crawl---> 1st site!

ionutcib · Jun 14, 2012

Use can use this php code:

Code:

if (![URL="http://www.php.net/strpos"]strpos[/URL]($_SERVER[â€˜HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"Googlebot")){ 
  header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
  header("Location: [URL]http://www.redirect[/URL] to this site");
  exit;
}

dbyrn · Jun 14, 2012

You can also use some .htaccess magic based on HTTP_USER_AGENT. Google it.

D.

Kaithe.Clarke · Jun 16, 2012

Since the old site is deindexed in Google, why would it crawl it again? Google will crawl your second site only.

RedPanda9 · Jun 16, 2012

Kaithe.Clarke said:
Since the old site is deindexed in Google, why would it crawl it again? Google will crawl your second site only.

That's what I was thinking!? But no one has been able to confirm this. I would test myself but I can't risk the time if Google does indeed bypass the no crawl and follow the 301.

I'm not sure what googlebot will see first, the robot.txt or the 301 redirect? I use htaccess.

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