could do a 301 re-direct.

In your .htaccess file on your webserver (if it isn't created, just use a txt editor to create a .htaccess file)

input the following

If your page is going to automatically redirect visitors to a second location, then Google would not index the content of the landing page. (Googlebots would also be redirected)

While you could work around this, you'd be breaking Google rules (showing Google something tha regular vistors won't see)

So the best answer might be the easiest answer... put a big orange button link on the landing page for visitors to click through to the intended destination.

-Ryan

RJP is correct! A 301 will not do what your want. It will redirect the visitor, but BigG won't like it..

You can put a Javascript redirect on the page, that redirects to the new page.
[script type="text/javascript"]
window.location = "http://www.google.com/"
[/script]

Note : swap square brackets for angle brackets,

if if you want to go a likke "grey-hat", if you could put a check on the site so that a check is made of the referer tag, if the user come from a search engine (say Google or Yahoo), they are automtaclly redirected to your money site. This will keep the Bots on your landing page and keep it indexed..

If you want to go this way then just say so, and I'll show you how its done.

take care

Bruce

you can use a count down js/php code

Ok.. here its is.. It looks and is very simple but works amazingly wel..

Its some PHP code that you must put on your landing page (make sure you have set HTML to tun as PHP via your sites .htaccess file.


[?php
$agent = $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];
$agentlist = '#(google)|(slurp)|(msn)|(scooter)|(crawler)|(bing )#Uis';
if (!preg_match($agentlist,$agent))
{
header('Location: http://www.your-money-site.com');
exit();
}
?]

Note: Change the square brackets into angle brackets.
Change the code so that http://www.your-money-site.com actually points to your destination site.

As i said, this is slightly on the grey-hat side of things, use carefully and you should be OK..

Hope it helps

Bruce

Bruce,

Your cloaking idea is good but there will be a small issue.

AFAIK, the term "Google" is also present if user has google toolbar installed on their browser, so it's better to check for "Googlebot", "msnbot","yahooslurp" etc.