My home page URL http://seadwellers.com/ redirects to http://www.seadwellers.com/. Is this a problem?
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"The URL http://seadwellers.com/ redirects to http://www.seadwellers.com/. Do you want to crawl http://www.seadwellers.com/ instead?"
I was given this when I tried to crawl my home page using MOZ software. I was not aware of this, do not know if it could be a problem concerning any aspect of SEO, etc?
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This is correct. You have consolidated both versions of the domain. No need to worry.
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Google sees http://www.seadwellers.com/some-page and http://seadwellers.com/some-page as 2 separate pages. So correctly you have a 301 redirect in place to resolve any looked for non www to redirect to the www version. All Moz is saying is that you put in the non www version and you'll have more joy looking at the www version. There is the choice because you may have links pointing to the non www version.
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