Send Google Bot to a Different URL?

agag2 · Jun 15, 2012

Hi
I have a website example .com (not real) is it possible to send google to one URL and a (real) user to another..

example .com /URL1
For user it stays on example .com /URL1 but for google bot it redircets to
example .com/bot or some other external URL..

How would I do this?
Thanks

wowhaxor · Jun 15, 2012

Search for "cloaking" which is a general term used for sort of throwing up variations/redirects between search engine spiders/bots and users. There are a crap ton of sample and simple code snippets to use depending on your specific need.

agag2 · Jun 15, 2012

Can anyone offer code for this specific task..

One that tricks all google spiders..

skrode · Jun 15, 2012

Code:

<?php
if ( strstr(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']), "googlebot") ) {
    header('Location: http://www.example.com/');
}
?>

agag2 · Jun 15, 2012

skrode said:

Thanks.

Where would I enter URL 1 and the secodn (redirect) URL..

Im intrested in redirecting many different pages on my site to many different urls (external)

skrode · Jun 15, 2012

does this suit your needs?

Code:

<?php

$urls = array(
    "http://url1.com/a.html" => "http://redirecturl1.com",
    "http://url2.com/b.html" => "http://redirecturl2.com",
);

if ( strstr(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']), "googlebot") ) {
    foreach(array_keys($urls) as $url) {
        if ( strstr($url, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ) {
            header('Location: ' . $urls[$url]);
            return;
        }
    }
}

?>

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