Is SEOmoz spider ignoring my redirect?
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My client was previously serving their website from both a .co.uk and a .com domain. The DNS for each of these domains was pointing to the same place, rather than redirecting.
I saw this as a potential duplicate content problem so I set the .co.uk to 301 redirect on to the .com.
As a user, the 301 seems to be working correctly. However, now that I have done this, SEOmoz is picking up thousands of "inbound" links from the .co.uk domain. Essentially, every single link on the internal site, is being duplicated in my stats as an inbound link as well.
It appears that the spider is ignoring the redirect. I'm not sure if it's a legitimate issue that will upset Google too, or if it's just a bug with SEOMoz's spider.
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Hey Matt,
Thanks for reaching out.
What you're likely seeing is the links that are to your co.uk are passing along their links to your .com site via that 301.The 301 itself isn't counted as a link, but any links to those pages with the 301 will be.
I hope that makes sense. Let me know if you have any further questions about that.
Cheers,
Joel. -
Hi Matt,
I am going to guess that the only reason that this is occurring is that when the sites were separate the SEOMoz bots crawled your sites and that data is still in their index. Potentially you could use a secondary tool to check. Possibly http://ahrefs.com/
If this isn't the case I would question your method of running your 301's, but without eyeballing the site/s, I think this question is far to difficult to resolve with the limited information provided.
Dan
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