Aluminium Refreshed | 13/09/05 - 16.40 |
My Aluminium Site has been gaining in popularity recently as it becomes listed in the search engines. People searching for aluminium using the beloved MSN search (my post) find my site on a regular basis, so do Yahoo! searchers, but Google folk do not. At least not yet.
Close analysis of my Statcounter (my post) user reports have shown that users have been bouncing around the maze of redirects that I had set up in order to direct users from pages picked up by a search engine to the same page embedded in my framework. This caused problems for Internet Explorer users where the document.referrer string is blank when the user has not clicked a link (full story). So upon automatic redirect the script couldn’t find out where the user had come from so they were sent to the index. From here users had to make their own way to the relevant page. Hardly ideal.
Now I have set up seperate redirect pages for each of the sites pages, so that users always (fingers crossed) end up moving smoothly to where they should be. I’ve tested it in IE, Firefox and Opera. No glitches so far. Let me know if you find a problem.