How does this rank? - a page that is 301 redirected
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How does a 301ed page rank in google?
In google I searched for" ikea.ca" which is set up as a 301 redirect to www.ikea.com/ca/en
and was surprised to see the url --> www.ikea.ca actually ranking.
IKEA Canada
<cite>ikea.ca/</cite>IKEA Featuring Scandinavian modern style furniture and accessories. Include storage options, lighting, decor products, kitchen appliances and beds. Bedroom - Kitchen - Living Room - IKEA North York
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I'm pretty sure it's a 301 redirect
Just to add -- they must have used ikea.ca at some point because opensiteexplorer is showing that they have 6,135 links and some social signals pointing to that .ca domain.
Does the fact that is has so many links to the .ca help it rank? even though the value of those links are being passed over to the .com site?
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It might be a 302 redirect like gmkrish said, which means that it will stay in the index. Or that particular url has been linked to by others and therefore staying in the index. Just hypothesizing.
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Thanks for your response
nope i don't own the domain (wish i did though ) I just have never seen that occurring before.
As to your two points:
1. It's interesting I''ve tried different http header checker tools - some return a 301 response code and some return a 200 for that url.
2. I don't think it's a recent implementation -- ikea been using their .com website as their main website for long time with different subfolders for international users. In fact if you check the ikea.ca cache it shows the ikea.com/ca/en page which was last crawled on Jan 3 2013.
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I am thinking of two possibilities:
1. Googlebot may see 302 instead of 301
2. 301 redirect might have been implemented recently
if you manage this domain, please post additional details for digging further.
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