Re-direct from index to random url, bad for SEO?

[Mattias]

I am currently rebuilding a site of mine and I now have a site where on the index page immediately randomly redirects to ./sub/XXXX where the four X's is a random number.

At first I was thinking of just having a little PHP script on the index that did the trick to another page, but then I started wondering if this would hurt my keyword strength since there wouldn't be any actual HTML content on the index.

Could I have SEO issues with this? How do search engine robots act when immediately sent away from a page? Follow, no follow?

If anyone is interested, its the site in my sig

 

[enlytend]

Bad idea - redirecting to random pages is going to confuse and annoy the search engines. How about just making a dynamic section of your home page where you have the PHP code to display your random fact?

 

[jitendraag]

If you have a designated 'random redirect' URL it's fine. I would just put the URL in robots.txt disallow to avoid any kind of penalty.

Wikipedia has it and MANY other sites (online comic strips) like to have it.

 

[Mattias]

If you have a designated 'random redirect' URL it's fine. I would just put the URL in robots.txt disallow to avoid any kind of penalty.

Wikipedia has it and MANY other sites (online comic strips) like to have it.

Do you mean just put disallow on the index-page?