Can "window.location" javascript on homepage affect seo?

[StudioCiteroni]

Hi!

I need to add a splashpage to my wordpress site. I use "window.location" javascript on the homepage to redirect on the splashpage (controlled by cookie to redirect only for the first access).

Can this technique affect the SEO on homepage?

Thanks in advance!

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

You really need a splash page, you know that it's really killing your bounce rate if you let users chose on the first entrance of your site? Besides that I wouldn't got for a JS solution to redirect users. Although Google is perfectly able to use JS these days I think a PHP solution is more effective.

[StudioCiteroni]

Ok, but in case i choose the PHP solution, i suppose that two different content (one for the splash and one for the default home) in the same homepage will make trouble: if the url are the same and the content is dynamically changing Search Engine Bots wont be able to crawl correctly

[evolvingSEO]

Hi There

I'm honestly not versatile in the intricacies of how window.location works - but I can tell you how to check if this is OK for search engines.

You can try a few things to see how Google "sees" the content;

• Do a fetch as Googlebot in Webmaster Tools
• Check the cache of the page if it has already been indexed (try text-only cache)
• Try running it through a header checker like URI Valet (set to Googlebot as user agent)

In all cases, you will get a "search engine view" of the page content. If it's what you want engines to see, then you are all set!

As far as the details of how to implement everything, I'd have to lean on a developer for that. But that's how you would check and verify it.