The client had a site with good traffic before. Then the client set up a new site, but he wants to keep the old site running with the index.html to redirect the any traffic coming to the old site to the new site.
Here comes the problems.
In a few days, we got 720,000 hits from a google spider on the old site index.html page (use the html rediect tags). the traffic of google spder hits are 20 GB.
It looks somehow google spider got stuck and kept on request the page for the 720,000 (direct requests?). I don't know if the index.html is a redirect page now cause the problem.
But should google spider be smart enough not get stuck by the redirect page?
I read some posts about the redirect and google spider issue. It seems google see the redirect as a cheating approach and will index you down. But it says nothing about it will cost 20 GB traffic. For some hosting it is big money.
Plus, my clients' old site and new site are similar sites. Just he has updated the site and then try to redirect old readers to the new site for the moment before we shut down the old site totally. And it costs us more than hundred dollars for the extra traffic by 720000 hits from google spider.
If instead of using the html redirect tags, if I use the php codes to redriect the page, such as, header("Location: www.newsite.com, will it be with the same problems, hit by huge google spider traffic?
