Different Home Page for Google Bot than For Normal Users

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moonlighsunligh

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• May 20, 2010

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Lets say i have domain http://example.com. In case google bot access my site i would like to serve example.com/main.html as home page. In all other cases home page should be as normal (accessed through http://example.com - default root pahe is index.php)

So far i come up with this:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} .*Googlebot.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} googlebot^$ 
RewriteRule ^index.php http://example.com/main.html [R=301,L]

Is that good?

 

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moonlighsunligh

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• May 20, 2010
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Is that good?

 

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nuntium

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• May 24, 2010

• #3

Check out plugin 'default user agent' plugin for firefox. You can set your user agent as googlebot and test it yourself.
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• May 24, 2010

• #4

Don't do this. It may seem like a short-term gain, but google pretty rapidly discovers this kind of trick and it's a great way to get your site banned. Doing shit like this shows google that without a doubt you intend to be blackhat.