Does BBNC Grow have the capacity to create interstitial pages?

SarahC tmp

Occasionally, in response to a current event, special holiday, time of year, we'd like to have an interstitial page that our website visitors see before they're directed to our homepage. Is there such a thing in BBNC Grow? Or do we just develop an alternative homepage?

Warren Sherliker

We put something like this in place for one of our clients. You can do it with the use of cookies and javascript. Put the code on the home page to redirect the user once per day (or however often you want) to the interstitial page - this way Google still sees your true home page and you don't lose any of those precious rankings.



As a shameless plug for ourselves (SmartTHING) It only takes an hour to do this so if anyone wants this let us know and we can provide it to you.

Karen Badham

Hey Sarah,



An alternate homepage is the easy way to go with this.



Thanks!


Karen

Warren Sherliker

Just watch out for your Google ranking if you start changing your home page - the JavaScript way avoids any issues as I say.



W.

Warren Sherliker

Hi,



I dug out the code for this so others can use it. Add the code in an unformatted text part to your site pages where you want redirects to happen i.e. your home page and any other landing pages.



All you need do is alter the var redirectURL = '...' bit to point to your landing page...



Code (I couldn't get it to paste in here - editor is a bit restrictive):


http://jsfiddle.net/Mr6xC/1/



Cheers



Warren

SarahC tmp

Warren Sherliker:
We put something like this in place for one of our clients. You can do it with the use of cookies and javascript. Put the code on the home page to redirect the user once per day (or however often you want) to the interstitial page - this way Google still sees your true home page and you don't lose any of those precious rankings.



As a shameless plug for ourselves (SmartTHING) It only takes an hour to do this so if anyone wants this let us know and we can provide it to you.

SmartTHING rocks. Thanks, Warren. Much appreciated.