Redirect Search Traffic to Own Search

[mcairns]

Hi,

 

I have a problem with a blog in that I lost a whole heap of posts. Many of these pages are still indexed though so I want to create redirects from these pages to relevant posts on my blog. I want to achieve this by grabbing what the visitor searched for (from the referrer) and then sending them to the results page of the search function on my blog for that exact term.

 

So basically I need to grab the search term from the referrer and then redirect the visitor to "http://myblog.com/search.php?[search_term].

 

As you have probably already worked out my php knowledge is pretty close to zero. I hope to achieve this by modifying the below code I found here - http://wyome.com/docs/Redirect_Search_Engine_Traffic_to_your_search

 

Can anyone please give me any suggestions on how to do this? Or even where/what I should start learning so I can work it out? Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

I am guessing I need to replace the line starting with " xarResponseRedirect" but I have no idea how to do this.

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

function lilina_userapi_redirect($args)

    {

        extract($args);

        if ((isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) and ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] != '')) {

            $keywords = "";

            $url = urldecode($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);

            // Google

            if (eregi("www\.google",$url)) {

               preg_match("'(\?|&)q=(.*?)(&|$)'si", " $url ", $keywords);

            }

            // AllTheWeb

            if (eregi("www\.alltheweb",$url)) {

               preg_match("'(\?|&)q=(.*?)(&|$)'si", " $url ", $keywords);

            }

            // MSN

            if (eregi("search\.msn",$url)) {

               preg_match("'(\?|&)q=(.*?)(&|$)'si", " $url ", $keywords);

            }

            // Yahoo

            if ((eregi("yahoo\.com",$url)) or (eregi("search\.yahoo",$url))) {

               preg_match("'(\?|&)p=(.*?)(&|$)'si", " $url ", $keywords);

            }

            // Looksmart

            if (eregi("looksmart\.com",$url)) {

               preg_match("'(\?|&)qt=(.*?)(&|$)'si", " $url ", $keywords);

            }

            if ((isset($keywords[2])) and ($keywords[2] != ' ')) {

               $keywords = preg_replace('/"|\'/', '', $keywords[2]); // Remove quotes

               $keyword_array = preg_split("/[\s,\+\.]+/",$keywords); // Create keyword array

               $keyword_array = array_unique($keyword_array);

               $redirect = implode(' ', $keyword_array);

               xarResponseRedirect(xarModURL('lilina', 'user', 'search', array('q' => $redirect)));

            }

        return;

       }

    } 

 

[Northern Flame]

i dont really understand what you're trying to do,

this is all i understood,

 

you want to redirect users to

 

 

myblog.com/search.php?[search_terms]

 

where are you going to redirect them from?

[mcairns]

Thanks very much for the response.

 

These users will be coming from Google mainly.

 

So they will land on my blog with a referrer of something like:

 

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=search+term&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

 

I then want to be able to redirect this user with this referrer to myblog.com/search.php?search+term

 

So, as an example, if someone searches for "disney land" in Google and clicks on a result for my blog, I want to then redirect them to myblog.com/search.php?disney+land

 

I hope this makes it clearer:)

[Northern Flame]

oh i understand what you are saying,

i've actually done something similar

to this before, except i didnt redirect them,

all i did was record the search terms,

you are going to need to do something like this:

 

<?php

// Enter Your Website URL below
$url = "http://www.myblog.com/search.php";

// Check The Refferer
$referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$blown = explode('/', $referer);
// Check if they are coming from Google
if($blown[2] == 'www.google.com'){
	$words = explode('q', $referer);
	$terms = explode('&', $words[1]);
	header("Location: ". $url . $terms[0]);
} else{
	// Put Your Content Here
	echo "Welcome To Me Website....";
}

?>

 

i didnt test this out yet,

but hopefully you see what

i am trying to do....