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Hi,

I’m building my first site with EE (and, wow, am I impressed). It’s a site for an alcoholic beverage company so I need to ensure that users are “of age”.

When people first get to the site they will be presented with an age-validation form. I’ve built the form - it’s a straight-forward form:

-zip code
-day
-month
-year

I figure what I need to do is deliver the information to the server and have it compare the info to today’s date. If the number is less than 21, users will be redirected to an underage page and if it’s 21+ they will be granted access to the site.

So my question is…how do I do this in a search engine-friendly way? I’m assuming that PHP is the way to go here but I haven’t had to do this before.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help.

That’s a good question. I don’t have a real solution for you other than to optimize the entry page as best you can (product names, etc) while keeping it focused to real visitors.

If you do a search for other alcoholic beverages you’ll notice that most have results for their entry pages, too, this isn’t an uncommon problem. Do a site search for budweiser.com and you’ll see what I mean.

What you don’t want to do is what’s called “cloaking” or presenting different content to real visitors than you do to searchbots. It’ll get you banned. Just ask BMW.

Sorry that I don’t have a real solution. 😊

Thanks for your reply Ryan - sorry I took so long to get back…busy week!