Do interstitials hurt SEO?
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If you go to www.homeportfolio.com and click on one of the links in the footer. you'll notice you are presented with an interstitial. Can you tell me if that hurts our SEO and if we lose any link juice or suffer in any other way as a result of this linking method?
my main concern is whether having anchor text that says "bathroom ideas" that goes to an interstitial that doesn't mention bathroom ideas is non-relevant... even if it refreshes 12 seconds to a page that is.
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This question is over three years old, and the person who made this reply is no longer a Pro member. If you have a question on a similar subject, it's probably better to start a new thread after all this time. Thanks!
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You're going to recommend that someone permanently redirect someone (user and search crawler) to an irrelevant interstitial?
If you made the choice to redirect a user, why wouldn't you temporarily redirect a user, 302? That is if you made the decision to redirect the user.
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I see couple effects
- It might show to Bots different than users = Cloaking
- be careful what redirection you are using because your backlink profile to these pages will get affected
- and it also might affect PR flow to your site.
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