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    • raulo79
      raulo79 last edited by

      Hi all,

      I'm developing a dynamic qr code service..

      The service works in the following way:

      1. You create an account with an associated QR CODE pointing to a url like:
          - http://domain.me/username

      2. The user can change the target of this url.. he can:
           - point to an external url ( his website for example)
           - point to a vCard download page
           - a mobile ready webpage ( no redirection in this case)...

      3. Visiting http://domain.me/username my company logo is displayed and we redirect the visitor with a:

      header("Refresh: 5;URL=http://userdomain.tld");

      Google is indexing many user's URLs, this is good for those users pointing to the mobile ready webpage, in this case there is no redirection, but Google is indexing many urls that redirect to an external url and I don't know how to avoid this..

      I can't do an header('Location: http://www.example.com/'); because I need to display our logo after redirection.. how can I do google friendly?

      Sorry for my english, I hope you can undestand the problem.

      Best regards.
      Mauro.

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      • raulo79
        raulo79 last edited by

        No one can help me?

        Mauro.

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