Google's 302 Redirect Problem

[phpNewbie]

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Version of script: Version: 1.1
Version of PHP: PHP_4.3.11
Host: Apache_1.3.33
Have you searched for your problem: YES
If so, what terms did you try: keyword= "301"

I spent hours researching click counter scripts. I liked yours best. Before I install it there are a couple of small changes I'd like to make.

(1) For the past two years there have been countless complaints on SEO forums about Google incorrectly attributing content from destination pages to sites using HHTTP/1.1 302 redirects. It has happened to me too. I've seen my homepage listed in Google with the URL of someone else's link page. I don't want to do that to other webmasters. Apparently, the problem doesn't occur if a 301 "Permanent" redirect is used (see http://www.elouai.com/redirect.php). I would like to add an extra line at the end of click.php:

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// Redirect to the link URL
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
Header("Location: $url");
exit();

(2) In the article it says: "You can accidently hide your pages from getting properly indexed by Google if in the URL string you have the 'id' parameter. Google would then assume that is a session id and would not follow the link." I don't know whether that's true, but I'd like to play safe and rename the token like this:

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Before: http://www.example.com/ccount/click.php?id=13

After : http://www.example.com/ccount/click.php?site=13

I'm a PHP newbie, but I think it would only require a small change at the beginning of click.php:

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// First check if the ID is set and ...

$id=$_GET['site'];
if(empty($id)

And just in case a webmaster visits the page that linked to her site I'd like to rename 'click.php' [in settings.php]. The filename will then show what kind of redirect is being used:

http://www.example.com/ccount/redirect-301.php?site=13

Please let me know if you see any potential problems that I overlooked. Thanks.

phpNewbie

[Klemen]

Hi,

Sounds good, I don't see any problems. Try it ad let us know how it goes and I will think about making these changes to the original script.

Thanks for the kudos, if you like CCount please consider rating / reviewing it (you will find link in the readme.htm file).

Regards

[phpNewbie]

I set up a test page to try out the click counter at:

http://www.freepgs.com/devon/ccount-test.htm

The script is working fine, so I'll add it to the rest of the pages soon. When that's done, I'll put a link to PHPJunkYard.com at the bottom of the homepage and give it top score at Hot Scripts.

There were some more changes I had to make within "index.php" because I renamed the token from "id=" to "site=". I changed the echoed URL text strings in the output for the Usage example (two lines), and also within function add($url):

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function add($url) {
...
...

<?php echo("$settings[click_url]?id=$previd"); ?>
// changed to
<?php echo("$settings[click_url]?site=$previd"); ?>
...

I have one last question. The two text files which are given CHMOD permissions of 666 can be read by anybody. I changed the names of the files as a safety precaution, but is there a more secure method to prevent snoops from looking at the contents?

phpNewbie

[Klemen]

Nope, the files MUST be set to 666, no other way of having them writable by the script.