SEO-MOZ bar question on root vs subdomain / canonicalization issues
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When I look at the SEO-MOZ bar for our site and click next to subdomain (# links from #domains) it shows my main incoming links etc. but when I click on root domain ity shows mydomain/default.asp and 4 incoming links as well as a message that says this url redirects to another url. Does this imply canonicalization issues or is there a 301 redirect to my non /default.asp correcting this issue.
Thanks kindly,
Howard
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i assume you are hosted on IIS, you can use iis url-rewite model to fix this.
Match ^/default.asp$ rewrite to /But the main thing here is that you have a link on your site somwhere thet points to default.asp. or the crawler would not of found it.
Best to fix it for good, but if no links point to it, then it will never apear in the address bar, then no one will copy and paste a link to it and you will more then likley nver have a problem
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It seems like your hompage is accesable through http://www.mrgrabbar.com/default.asp and http://www.mrgrabbar.com if you want to have both you should use the rel="canonical" href="your root domain" /> for the /default.asp page
If you dont want the /default.asp you could just 301 redirect /defaukt.asp to mrgrabbar.com/
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Thanks kindly for your reply
Hi. I was looking at the code for my home page
www.mrgrabbar.com
Do you think I can try to remove the /default.asp to help prevent canonicalization issues? It seems like there is a link to the /default.asp version of my home page high up on this important page. I don't understand if there is some other purpose to having the /default.asp version so I was not sure if I should modify it.
I also looked at the code fro my canonical page and came acroos:
<input type=hidden name="redirectto" value=" default.asp?"=""></input type=hidden name="redirectto" value=">
does this mean that my canonical page is 301 redirecting back out to the non-canonical version (/default.asp)
Thanks,
Howard -
If you are using a CMS like wordpress, joomla, drupal and such often the "frontpage" is another page redirected, that can sometime be an issue. For those times canonical or proper 301 redirect will solve that issue.
There can also be a www. vs. http:// issue. that would be solved with a short code snippet.
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