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Google Updates Redirect Guidelines
- Search Engine Watch, Friday, May 2, 2014 2:44 PM
Google wants webmasters to carefully consider redirects that the engine views as manipulative and deceiving to searchers. Some call it cloaking. In an update to its webmaster quality guidelines it details the specific types of redirects. Violating the guidelines could land the site in a heap of trouble -- not just bring a slap on the wrist. After all, the rules belong to the one who owns the infrastructure.
