HT.Access Redirect Question

[joeups]

Quick question on the HT.Access / Redirects...

II have a site http://www.securitysystemsfortlauderdale.org/ADT-Home-Security-Alarm-Systems/ and I am running througth SEO moz for backlinks and noticed a large descrepancy on the links on the root vs the redirect.

There are more links on the root and less on the redirect.  Does this affect SEO for Google or does Google follow the redirects and give credit accordingly.

Thanks for your help!!!

Matt

[JaspalX]

Hi Matt, I'm not sure I understand the question, the www. sub-domain shows 35 linking root domains in OSE but the redirect is just wasting any link juice those links are giving -  did you know that the redirect from http://www.securitysystemsfortlauderdale.org to http://www.securitysystemsfortlauderdale.org/ADT-Home-Security-Alarm-Systems/ is a 302?

If you're trying to somehow transfer link juice from the home page to the ADT page, a 302 isn't going to do it for you - if you're going to do a redirect use a 301.

In fact, while we're on the subject, did you know that http://securitysystemsfortlauderdale.org redirects to http://www.securitysystemsfortlauderdale.org//home/index.php ?

there was a (really very good) blog post very recently about how to manage redirects and canonicalisation etc. on IIS (I'm assuming that's what you've got because of the .asp suffix) - recommend you work through that if you haven't already.

[ShaMenz]

Hi Matt,

Search engine crawlers will follow the redirects and pass link value as long as they are 301 (Permanent) Redirects.

Hope that helps,

Sha

[ShaMenz]

Hi jassy,

I think the question is basically "is it a problem that most of the external links are pointing to the original page and not directly at the one I prefer (and have redirected to)".

Since the chances of getting external links altered is slim & most of the link value is passed with a 301, then the broad answer would be "no", but the more important task would be to fix the redirect issues you highlighted as quickly as possible.

Sha