Does 301 redirection will effect my site in the future?

[Vinss]

Hello Guys,

I am totally new to SEOMOZ.com, when I had issues with my website I asked one of my friend who does SEO  he suggested me to implemented 301 redirection approximately 11 months a go, here is the URL of the website http://www.bharatdesi.com/hyderabad . Will Google ban my website from search engine results, what would be the worst scenarios. know there are really good SEO people who follow SEOMOZ everyday... Can any one here please suggest me with some good answers weather I have to remove 301 redirection or I can still keep the same until my home page gets redesigned. I don't really understand all the concepts of SEO, but if some one can help me with the good answers I can ask my developer to the same.

Thank you

[NakulGoyal]

Well, it looks like you are redirecting your homepage to http://www.bharatdesi.com/hyderabad which to me does not make sense. Think of the user here first, SEO comes next.

All your city links in the footer work fine it seems. But if somebody gets to your homepage, it defaults to Hyderabad. If I were you, I'd just do a simple page with your logo on it on the homepage, with the links to the cities you have in your footer. That should do the job of being your homepage while your real homepage gets designed.

I hope this helps and makes sense.

[Vinss]

But I need more clarity on this, if I still keep the same for a while does it effect my keyword rankings.

[NakulGoyal]

Keyword rankings for your homepage =  Yes. Because your homepage technically does not exist and is redirected to an inner page, which is focused on a particular city. So if your keyword is Bharat Desi, which is your website brand name, it shows:

<cite>www.bharatdesi.com/</cite>

Hyderabad Classifieds, Hyderabad Yellow Pages, Free Classifieds Hyderabad, India, Free Hyderabad Classifieds Online Classifieds Hyderabad, Free **...**And if your keyword is a regional keyword, like Houston Desi, then that page is not affected. In this case, this redirect is helping your Hyderabad page, because technically you are telling Google that hyderabad page is your homepage.Does that make sense ?