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Let’s talk redirects

Search Off the Record

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Are You Blocking Google Bots?

Some, some kinds of interstitials are technically implemented as redirects. Do something like a div on top of the content that blocks the content and then goes away. Google bot will still be able to render the content below the div and use that for indexing at least. So it feels like probably you're blocking bots more than you're blocking actual users from looking at the content. But if you do need to do this kind of things, don't do a redirect.

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