# Linking Search Results to Third-Party Sites

**URL:** https://community.swiftype.com/t/linking-search-results-to-third-party-sites/239
**Category:** Helpline
**Created:** [June 10, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/linking-search-results-to-third-party-sites/239 "2016-06-10T14:37:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![carlsonec](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.swiftype.com/carlsonec/32/60_2.png) [@carlsonec](https://community.swiftype.com/u/carlsonec)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/linking-search-results-to-third-party-sites/239/1 "2016-06-10T14:37:02Z")

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Is there a way to create search results (and link to content outside of site) for content that doesn’t exist on our website? For example, we don’t sell a particular product but we have a partnership with another company that does. We have a pretty good list of search results with zero results. Can we create custom search results with links to third-party sites or do we need to make landing pages of these search terms to link to within Swiftype?

Thanks,  
Erik

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### Author: ![jhooks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@jhooks](https://community.swiftype.com/u/jhooks)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/linking-search-results-to-third-party-sites/239/2 "2017-04-27T15:36:35Z")

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Were you ever able to figure this out?

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### Author: ![cpatton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@cpatton](https://community.swiftype.com/u/cpatton)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.swiftype.com/t/linking-search-results-to-third-party-sites/239/3 "2017-04-27T15:39:36Z")

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It’s possible to create such results with API-based engines. API-based engines allow you to create a result document for just about anything.

With the Crawler, you would have to create a landing page. You could, however, use a timed redirect via the[refresh meta tag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh) (or using JavaScript), to redirect users to a 3rd party. Swiftbot just needs to be able to index the landing page without being redirected by the server.
