Temporary Redirect Notice

[AndreaKayal]

We are received a "notice" that our root domain http://timelink.com has a permanent 301 redirect to www.timelink.com.

Could this cause any SEO issues?

[rusted88]

Google indexes both timelink.com and www.timelink.com if there is no redirect to one of them, so no it's a good thing that you http://timelink.com gets redirected to http://www.timelink.com because it would be seen as duplicated content if both links would be indexed.

Did you get that notice in webmaster tools?

[WilliamBay]

It's nothing to be alarmed about in this case. It's just letting you know that it found a 301 redirect. It happens quite often.

In your case the 301 is set up so if people use http://timelink.com without the 'www' it redirects it to that address.
There are two addresses for most websites if not set up properly by the hosting company, a www version and a non-www version. It's just a matter of preference of which to use, but it's important to have one redirect to the other or search engines could potentially find two versions of the site. Since you've been building links to your site, you want to ensure that there is one, and only one that the search engines are finding.

That's a long bit of background on the why. But again the short answer is that in this case it's not a big deal.
There may be other cases though, where you find a 301 that was not intentional.

[AndreaKayal]

Hi,

Thank you for your quick response.  Good to know that the permanent redirect is a good thing:)  The notice is coming from Moz.  I guess the next question is why is it being noticed?  Do the notices in Moz not require action?

[AndreaKayal]

Thank you, William!  Very helpful and much appreciated.