Level 1 Child Redirect to Level 3 (SEO)
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Hi Guys,
I'd like to get an SEO point of view on Redirecting Level 1 Pages (ie: main pages) to Level 3. I'm not a web-developer but lately I'm noticing a lot of main nav bar tabs redirected to child pages.
When I go to click on what I assume is my main Motorcycle Level One Page the url looks something like this.
example.com/motorcycles/bandit/cb600-hornet
Essentially there is no content in the first 2 levels, how will this affect my SEO efforts?
Also, is there any point adding in title and description tags for these 2 levels seems as there is no content?
SEO advise would be appreciated, thank you.
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I'd like to get an SEO point of view on Redirecting Level 1 Pages (ie: main pages) to Level 3.
I am thinking (hoping) you may not be using the proper verbiage. If you have a link from your home page to a page within your site, whether that page is 1 level or 10 levels deep, it is referred to as a "link". A redirect happens when the target page automatically bounces you to another page.
Links are a good thing for your site as they help users and crawlers locate pages quickly and easily. If a user didn't have the link, they would need to navigate from your home page to the motorcycles page, then to the bandit page, then finally to the cb600-hornet page which would take 3 clicks. The link offers the ability to get to the page in 1 click.
Redirects are great when required, but they also do not pass the full amount of link juice on to the target page, so they should be avoided when possible.
Is there any point adding in title and description tags for these 2 levels seems as there is no content?
If the pages have no content, you should add a "noindex, follow" tag to these pages so they do not get indexed. Then there would be no need to add a title nor description tag.
Of course, the best option would be to add quality content to these pages, but the choice is yours.
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Sorry it must be a direct link.
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There is no strong reason to suggest that redirecting to deeper page is really a big hindrance. The big question is why use a redirect at all? Why not simply directly link to it?
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