: Google and random redirects I have a site where homepage "example.com" redirects to random joke(example.com/random-joke). First I redirected with php, but then google indexed that joke page(rather

@Gail5422790

If I'm understanding correctly you want the complete list of jokes indexed as the home page, however, you only want the user to see 1 random joke when they visit the home page (My solution is based on the assumption that I'm understanding correctly).

I would place all of the content on the homepage and use CSS to build a slider for the jokes, this way all content is available to both Google and the user on the homepage but the styling emphasizes your random joke and requires action on the part of the user to switch to the next joke.

Note: You want to be careful how you format this, as Google doesn't like hidden text, this technique is in my experience pretty common so if done tastefully shouldn't be a problem.

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@RJPawlick198

Why don't you just display the random joke on your homepage?

Or do you want Google to index something else than what your users are going to see?

The latter can become an issue since Google generally doesn't like that. Or did I completely misunderstood your question?

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