302 hijacks here we go again
Marcia over at sew reports on Google Page Hijacking Still Going Strong
so How do you stop the Hijack.,. Mirror deflects Laser
DaveN
Marcia over at sew reports on Google Page Hijacking Still Going Strong
so How do you stop the Hijack.,. Mirror deflects Laser
DaveN
Lee 1688 days ago
Specifically on the topic of 302s, but not hijacks…
I’ve been looking at this site for a pal of mine – a classic “should be ranking but isn’t” situation. Top 3 company in the states for what they do, they’re stuck on page 5…
I discovered that their main domain 302s to a deeper, internal page. So when they do come up in SERPs, http://www.domain.com displays as the URL, but then you are redirected to http://www.domain.com/internal/internal.html.
Yahoo site explorer shows the number of backlinks to http://www.domain.com (minus internal links) to be almost 10x that of http://www.domain.com/internal/internal.html
I guess I’m curious as to given that there is no page at http://www.domain.com, are the outside links pointing to it providing any value to the site’s link popularity?
And what impact should I expect if he figures out how to get his host to change his 302 to a 301?
And I’m still waiting for the DaveN Quality Rank Toolbar…;)
g1smd 1687 days ago
The most important page of a site is the root index page.
If you want that root index URL to be indexed and to rank, then it should not redirect to some other place, and there should only be one URL that can directly access that content (all the others should of course redirect to it, and a 301 should be used). The URL without the index file filename included is the usual one to treat as canonical. Its your choice as to whether www or non-www is the canonical form, but I would go with www every time.
g1smd 1678 days ago
I originally thought this thread would get a lot of comments…..