Redirects

[Nancy]

I know you can redirect certain pages, but what I need to know is can you redirect a page that is part of your website to a blog address. Would it then redirect anyone clicking on the link for the original page to the blog page? An if this can be done, how?

Nancy ;D

[troyzone]

Hi Nancy,

I'm not sure I completely understand your question...perhaps you are just referring to creating a simple redirect page, but I'll cover another possible scenario as well just in case you are referring to that particular instance.

Of course, you can make a redirect page on your own site as has been discussed in several threads on the forum, including one here. By definition, a redirect IS a page on your site that simply contains redirect code and nothing else, so that any time you link to that page, it redirects visitors to another location. The page it redirects to can be anywhere...it could be a page on your site, or elsewhere online.

You can easily create a redirect page for a blog address in the same matter that you create redirects for affiliate links or for any other purpose. Any time you link to that redirect page, your visitor will end up at the blog address (or wherever you redirected them to). If all that you are asking is whether a page on your site can be made to redirect to a blog address then yes, this can be easily done.

However, if you're wondering whether the blog can be made to have a link back to your original page on your site then this is not possible unless you can manipulate the code on the blog page such that it will contain a link back to your site. On the same token, you can't make it automatically redirect back to your site upon exiting without being able to add some sort of script to the page to accomplish this.

Basically, you would have to have sufficient control over any given page in order to manipulate it. The best thing to do in such a case where you don't have enough control over the code on the page that you're linking to is to open it into a new window. Then when the visitor closes the page, your originating page is still open in another browser window.

This is in fact why we are taught in 3PP to open affiliate URLs into new windows, because we don't have any control over the destination page and cannot otherwise make the visitor return to our page after they are done viewing the affiliate page.

I hope this answers your question Nancy.

Troy

[Nancy]

Yes Troy, you did answer. I thought that was how it worked by reading several post here, but wasn't sure I was understanding it right. That is why I asked.

Sometimes my brain makes it more complicated than it actually is. I call it my senior moments.

Thanks
Nancy