Why isnt my crawl results showing a 301 redirect even though I have a 301 rewrite in my .htaccess file?

[PCTechGuy2012]

Ive searched the previous Q&A's & cant find an answer so I;ll ask it here crawling my site shows isnt the 301 redirect that i have from my non www to my www domainIts only showing all the results for my www subdomain.As i'm new to SEO & SeoMoz I dont fully understand.

Any help would be greatly appreciated because my site is like 2 & a half years old & i'm trying to learn seo so I can rank higher in the serp's.

Thanks

[AlanMosley]

If you give us a domain i can check it is working.

but really your crawl should not report this, as all your internal links should point to youir canonical domainname, if it did, that would mean you have a link to the wrong domainname

[PCTechGuy2012]

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[AlanMosley]

its working fine.

You dont see it your report because all your internal links point to www or are relative. That is what you want.

if someone had a link to you using domian.com, it would 301 redirect to www.domain.com so the credit for the link would be consolidated as www.domain.com. But you do lose a little bit of link juice when you 301 redirect, but is better then not getting there at all.

But in internal linking you have ful control, so you should always link directly to the www, and not go though a 301 and leak link juice

[PCTechGuy2012]

I'm sorry about not replying before now.I got a call to look at an apartment.I just back.Now you said to link directly to the www.do you mean by linking with a href tag and using absolute paths in my link.because i dont want any spambots to scrape my links thats why I thought using relative paths were the preferred method.

[PCTechGuy2012]

Hey Alan,

Like I said yesterday,I'm sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner.I HAD TO see that apartment.But i'm stiil curious what you meant when you said :

**you should always link directly to the www, and not go though a 301 and leak link juice.**Do you mean using an href tag with your links and using absolute link paths?

Thanks man!

your help is much appreciated!

[AlanMosley]

no they dont need to be absolute.

but if you have decided on using www, then you do the required 301 to the www, then make sure all your internal links point to the www.

301 redirects leak link juice, so you dont want to be redirected when it is not necessary. so if you want to link to www.domain.com/page.html
dont link to domain.com/page.html and then let the 301 redirect it to www.domain.com/page.html , link directly to it in the first place

so if you make sure this is done, then SEOMopz crawler will never use the 301 redirect and never report it.

[PCTechGuy2012]

OK thanks Alan I Appreciate your response.that clears it up!I'm going to mark this as answered

thanks much.

Shawn