Will my SEO Affect If I Redirect existing user from homepage to dashboard?
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Hi Guys,
My client (SaaS company) wants to redirect all the visitors to the dashboard if they have already created an account with them. The redirection would be done at the server level using a cookie.
Does the redirection (though done only if user is already registered) affect SEO rankings? They want to be double sure.
Thanks.
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Hi Daniel,
Thanks a lot for your response.
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Hey there,
As long as the redirect is implemented properly and only affects registered users, it should not have an effect on your SEO. Just make sure you test it after rolling it out.
However, one consideration would be that existing customers will not be able to see the regular homepage, which means:
- it'll be harder for them to link to the homepage if they can't figure out what's going on
- there might be information on the homepage that they want to access but can't
Therefore, I'd recommend having a way for registered users that were redirected to the dashboard to have an intuitive way of visiting the homepage without being redirected.
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Hi Matt,
It would be entirely based on the cookie.
Thanks
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Out of curiosity, would users need to be logged in to be redirected? Or would it be entirely based on the cookie?
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