Redirector

Hi,

Say I have a page a.com. Say I want to redirect a.com to b.com. That
happens because a.com is obsolete and stuff.

I can use javascript redirection right.

The thing is a.com got a lot of traffic from search engine and I want
to know the search engine that send traffic to a.com.

I know it from referal.

Now, that a.com has moved to b.com, I want to know the search engine
by looking at the referral of b.com

The problem is in b.com logs, b.com will simply note that a.com is its
referral.

If there is a link in c.com that link to a.com, which will redirect to
b.com, how can I arrange a.com redirection so that it'll redirect
traffic to b.com and make b.com to think that it got traffic from
c.com?

Jonathan

Here are some alternatives you can try a.com:
1) .htaccess redirection http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
2) url forwarding using godaddy, mydomains, etc., http://www.mydomain.com/
3) make a cgi, php, asp script that redirects to: b.com/log_it.php?ref=c.com

I am not sure if the referrer will not change from c.com to a.com using
method 1 and 2, but someone else may know that :-)

I wonder if doing
location.url = "b.com/?reference=referencesomething" would do.

>I wonder if doing
> location.url = "b.com/?reference=referencesomething" would do.

Sure. You will be able to read that in your server log file. If you wan't to
put in dedicated log file just for referers from a.com redirects, you should
make a small script that write "referencesomething" into a text file.

Say bigwebsite.com link to b.com which redirect to a.com. How can I
arrange so that when I look at a.com log file, I see bigwebsite.com?

To avoid confusion, I would like to keep the domain names from before: "Say
C.com link to A.com which redirect to B.com. How can I arrange so that when
I look at a.com log file, I see C.com?"

1) .htaccess redirection http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
If you don't have referrer in you log file, or the referrer is changed with
the redirect, you need to do a htaccess redirect that includes the referrer
in the domain it redirects to: b.com?ref=c.com

2) url forwarding using godaddy, mydomains, etc., http://www.mydomain.com/
If you have the referrer isn't changed from c.com to a.com, and you can see
referrers in your log file, you should be able to see c.com.

3) make a cgi, php, asp script that redirects to: b.com/log_it.php?ref=c.com
This would always work, because ?ref=c.com would make it to the logfile.

I am sure that someone in here may be able to provide the code for 1) and
3). I don't know much about htaccess, though, so I can not guarantee that
you can insert the ?ref=c.com