301 redirect
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Hello,
I received a crawl diagnostic report for the website http://www.advancedemt.com
here's what it said:
Issue: (301 redirect)
Page Title URL:http://advancedemt.com/
Redirects to:http://http://www.advancedemt.com/
I called seohosting.com for help:
- They checked my .httaccess file and did not find anything that would cause this 301 redirect..
- Cpanel was evaluated for a 301 redirect and nothing there either.
- MyPHP Admin was checked for anything that could possibly cause this issue.
- They had a tech search the entire database and no luck on any issue that may be causing the SEOmoz software to pick up this 301 redirect.
- We checked the Wordpress settings... No discrepancies.
- Wordpress permalinks... No problems.....
- We checked Google to see if they may have indexed the site for the error with no luck... I told the SEO Hosting staff that the canonical feature that has been built into Wordpress would prevent this redirect from allowing Google to index the site with this error.
Is it possible that the crawl diagnostics is wrong???
Please help...
Best regards, Jeff Bratcher (404) 520-2385
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Hi Sha,
I really appreciate your in depth explanation. I wiil try to email the help staff and see if they can help me understand why this notice continues to show up as a redirect.
I am so OCD when it comes to my websites. Cannot tolerate anything short of perfection. Lol
Thanks for your help, Jeff Bratcher
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Hi Kane,
- I entered advancedemt.com into the SEOmoz Pro Dashboard to track this site.
- In the WordPress settings set-up it is entered as www.advancedemt.com
All of my other sites are set-up the same exact way. I cannot understand why SEOmoz is showing a 301 redirect of advancedemt.com to http://http://www.advancedemt.com
The Canonical feature that comes with WP makes everything function without any issues, but I do not know how Google is indexing the site...
Thanks, Jeff Bratcher
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Hi Jeff,
The 301 Redirect is not reported as an Error in the Pro App, but a Notice.
You can see this in the Crawl Diagnostics Summary where you see the big Red, Blue & Yellow buttons.
Notices are listed in the yellow section.
For each of the sections there is a short explanation and the Notices section reads as follows:
Notices are interesting facts about your pages we found while crawling.
So what this means is that items listed in the Notices section are simply highlighted to ensure that you are aware they exist. The 301 redirect from the non www root domain to the www sub-domain is normal practice to ensure that the pages in your site are not seen as duplicates of each other by search engines. So, there is no need to be concerned about the 301 redirect highlighted in your Pro App Report.
The Errors(red) and Warnings(blue) are the issues that can have an impact on the SEO health of your site.
The explanatory notes explain this:
Errors - Pages with crawl errors are often difficult for search engines to crawl, index and rank.
Issues listed as Errors should be dealt with and eliminated as quickly as possible.
Warnings - Pages with crawl warnings are often penalized by search engines.
Issues listed as Warnings may be a problem for your site, but in some cases (for example where you know that you have added 302 Redirects for a specific purpose) you may just say to yourself, "yes, that is the way I want it to be" and choose to ignore them.
When you are looking at each individual page in the Pro App reports, you will find a tiny blue Help link at the top right of each page (directly above the export link) which will take you to an in-depth explanation of that particular Pro App feature.
Also, if you are ever concerned about something in your reports, you can always ask a question here in Q&A or email the Help team direct at help@seomoz.org. Those guys are awesome and always happy to help out, as are the many members & Associates who lend a hand here in Q&A.
Staff also cruise through Q&A from time to time, but with so many questions posted each day, if you have an issue that needs staff input it is a good idea to email the help team and make them aware of it as soon as possible.
I hope that helps.
Sha
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Hi Jeff,
http://www.advancedemt.com/ appears to work fine for me, and http://advancedemt.com/ appears to redirect just fine.
We can't view your first link since it's only for your account, and the second link you gave was missing the colon in http:// - I don't think that's related to the SEOmoz error you're seeing but just pointing it out.
Is it possible that the domain was spelled incorrectly in your site settings? Also, if your proper domain has the "www." prefix, and you typed it without a prefix into your SEOMoz settings, they might view that as an error. Was your domain entered without the "www." in your dashboard?
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