Search results all going to home page
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I'm an author, and after doing a search for one of my books I realized that no matter what was searched, the user was getting lead to the homepage. please see the attached picture.
How do I fix this and is this hurting my SEO?
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interesting thanks
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I see the page was there on 4th May, 2012. See Google Cache (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tRCWWnSe7AAJ:www.ultimatebasictraining.com/workbook.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a)
However, today, it looks like there's a 302 / Temporary Redirect in Place on http://www.ultimatebasictraining.com/workbook.html
HTTP/1.1 302 Found => Date => Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:05:18 GMT Server => Apache Location => http://ultimatebasictraining.com Content-Length => 295 Connection => close Content-Type => text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Have your webmaster look at your .htaccess file and find out and remove the redirects or find why they were added in the 1st place.
I hope this helps.
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