1. How to redirect? 2. Meta tags

For a soon to be published websight I want visitors to always start at the root url. Browser should not show url of pages shown in frames, but must always be shown as www.croco.nl slash nothing. On the other hand, for to be shown on search engine results, I want bots to crawl as deep into my site as possible and will also handfeed url's  deeper than the root url. The problem is that when someone thru a search engine finds url other than the root (so let's say for instance http://www.croco.nl/water/waterintro/waterintro.htm) following this link would open the page in the completely window. And I don't want this, cause it's intended to be shown in a specific frame within my index page.

I could tell bots not to index the waterintro.htm and put all the meta tags in for instance /waterintro/index.htm (not exist). This page would contain nothing more than the meta tags (feed the search engines!) and a redirect to the root url of the websight, so that the page would load as intended, namely the root url and its frames.

Does anyone know if I can do this? Are the meta tags used in the /waterintro/index.htm any useful or do bots recognize the page as a redirect page and therefore don't index the page. Considering how annoying (endless) redirects and pop-ups can be, I can imagine some search engine have a policy of not indexing these pages. Anyone know of this, and if so how to fool the bots ?

All tips & trix welcome

Mm, no comprende

global.asa is a text file that sits in your root directory. If it's present, it fires asp/vb subroutines when the application (web server) starts and stops and also when the session (A user comes to your site for the first time in this browser session) starts and stops.

The Application_OnStop and Session_OnStop are not reliable, but you can put any asp code your want into the Application_OnStart and Session_OnStart.

Putting the following code into the Session_OnStart subroutine will direct any new user to index.htm regardless of what uri they follow to your site.

Response.Redirect "/index.htm"

In asp.net, the file is called global.asax and can contain a couple of other subroutines like Page_OnLoad.

Two after thoughts...

A global.asa file can actually go into any directory and will apply to all subdirectories within that tree unless the sub directory has it's own global.asa.

For events in global asa to fire, a user must have session cookies enabled which they need for the forum anyway.