301 redirect Issues
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my clients site is www.greenbayharvest.co.uk
When you enter that URL it redirects to www.greenbayharvest.co.uk/shop, dont ask why, thats the way they set it up and thats what im stuck with.
So, how do i resolve the 301 issue here.
we want all things to point to www.greenbayharvest.co.uk, in terms of SEO but does the fact that there is a redirect going to /shop make this an issue?
we appear to have:
www.greenbayharvest.co.uk/shop
all these URL's go to the same same page so what is the best way to correct this?
thanks for any help on this
Lee
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Yes and No, i dont think that these redirects are directly harming your seo but having a home page on the base url does help in terms of allowing visitors to feel comfortable.
I think the main issue that could harm your seo is that perhaps that you or someone else in the past or future has built links pointing to your home page which does not exist. If you are going tyo keep it as is then the priority needs to be on this extension of your domain and flow out to the rest of the site.
Hope this makes sense.
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Hi Lee Changing the redirects to www.greenbayharvest.co.uk would be an easy task to some extent. Firstly, you would need to see how the redirects are being handled...if this is done within the cpanel of the domain or by a component within the website platform or by the HTACCESS file in folder of the domain. Be very careful with HTACCESS if you don't know what you are doing. I would take a guess and say that this was done via HTACCESS. If so , you are looking for something along the lines of # Redirect old file path to new file pathRedirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://example.com/newdirectory/newfile.html Simply edit this ad redirect it back to the main url that you have chosen.In this particular case, you can redirect all the url's to the url you want.I hope that this helped you out.
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an update on this.
greenbayharvest.co.uk 301 redirects to
www.greenbayharvest.co.uk which then 301 redirects to
www.greenbayharvest.co.uk/shop
is this hurting SEO and if so what should be the correct procedure?
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