Crawl Diagnostic: Notices about 301 redirects

[inlinear]

There are detected five 301 redirects on my site and I want to understand why this is happening? And is this important to fix?

http://domain.cl/subfolder      ---- redirects to ---->    http://domain.cl/subfolder/

What does this tell me "/"

I am very curious

Thanks for every answer
Holger

[TakeshiYoung]

It doesn't really matter what you're use, as long as you're consistent and get people to link the right version.

[inlinear]

Takeshi, Thanks for the link! I was wondering: Who installed the 301, it was not me, so its a server feature?... Its becuase I have two sites exactly with the same structure, but on different webspaces because of 2 languages and TLDs. On one there is no redirect detected by seomoz ... But on the other. When I use a subfolder e.g. Example.com/services/ each subfolder contains an index.php and I link to it just linking to ...services/ and not to ...services/index.php Hope thats the best practice?

[TakeshiYoung]

A 301 redirect is basically a way to tell that one page is equivalent to another page.

In Google's eyes, http://domain.cl/subfolder and http://domain.cl/subfolder/ are two different pages. By having the 301 redirect in place, it tells Google that they're both the same page. So no, you don't need to fix anything, it's working as it should be.

More info on trailing slashes:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html