Will placing a redirect on my Index.html impair my search engine rankings in the short/long term?

Question

I have just re-designed my site with the SAME NAME, SAME HOST but in a NEW DIRECTORY...so I have redirected it (using a auto refresh HTML string) from www.example.com to www.example.com/1

Now I am concerned that the search engines will not like this and penalize me for redirecting the URL.

Does anyone know anything about this, is there cause for alarm?

Answer 1

A redirect on your main landing page will not help you at all. Indeed, the major search engine spiders might skip most, if not all, of your site.



You should have natural internal text links to navigate throughout your site so that the spiders can easily follow them.



If you ever need to do a redirect, only do a permanent 301 redirect and not on your main page unless your website has moved. You can also do 301 redirects on individual files and folders too.



Good Luck!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Short and sweet: Search engines will be ok (after some time) if you use a 301 redirect on the majority of your pages.



Use it the right way and you'll be fine.

Answer 4

Search engines only like server-side redirects. 301 redirect is the type of redirect that you need to implement. I would love to walk you through the process, but I'm not a server guy. Her are a bunch of links on the topic.



http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/pages/Redirect-requests-to-your-application-with-the-HttpRedirection-module.aspx



https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20071119121733AADo8et



http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php



http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm



http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml