Internal Linking Structure - help Req'd

[NSJ78]

I have a website that due to the way in which it was put together a few years back always redirects to a /subdomain folder when the top level domain is entered.

When analysing the new SERPS tool i spotted that when the .com domain was assessed it didn't pick up the internal links that were pointing to the /subdomain.

Q) Could the /redirect cause a problem when crawled by Google, and if i'm linking back to the homepage should i be using the domain or the subdomain as the link (even though one redirects to the other......)

[AdamThompson]

"Could the /redirect cause a problem when crawled by Google"
Possibly. What type of redirect is it? 301, 302 JavaScript, Meta Refresh?

[KeriMorgret]

If you don't know the type of redirect, you can use a server header checker (search that via Google) and put in your home page. The tool will tell you the type of redirect. Or, you can share your URL here and we'll take a look at it for you.

[NSJ78]

Thanks for your comments:

I've used the tool and this is the result:

<dl id="Report">

<dt>1. Requesting: http://www.highstreetvouchers.com</dt>

<dd>GET / HTTP/1.1</dd>

<dd>Connection: Keep-Alive</dd>

<dd>Keep-Alive: 300</dd>

<dd>Accept:/</dd>

<dd>Host: www.highstreetvouchers.com</dd>

<dd>Accept-Language: en-us</dd>

<dd>Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate</dd>

<dd>User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)</dd>

</dl>

<dl>

<dt>Server Response:</dt>

<dd>HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:31:05 GMT Server: Apache Location: http://www.highstreetvouchers.com/gift-vouchers/ Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1</dd>

<dd>Any further comments from what is above?</dd>

<dd>many thanks,</dd>

</dl>

[AdamThompson]

You should be fine with that, because it is a 301 redirect.

[KeriMorgret]

The part you asked about is great. I do notice some other URL issues you might want to take care of. The home link goes to http://www.highstreetvouchers.com/gift-vouchers/index (note the index at the end), so you have a duplicate there. Your special occasions link has a .jsp at the end, where most of your URLs don't have the .jsp. I do see some pages that are duplicates and show both with and without the .jsp.