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Dear Chiaryn,

Thank you for your very helpful reply.

This website is hosted on a partner agency who create the website and I only act as a SEO consultant for them. What you say is very helpful because it means their home-made CMS should be corrected to provided better 301 redirection.

I wish you a good day,

Pascal

Hi!

I want to crawl this website : http://www.car-moderne.ch.

I tried a got back the crawl just for that one url (not for all the pages of the website). This single line cvs says that the status of the http://www.car-moderne.ch is 200, but in fact it is a redirect 301 to http://www.car-moderne.ch/fr where the live home page is (actually the Moz bar sees the 301, not the 200 as the single-lined crawl does).

How can I proceed in this case (a 301 redirect being installed on the subdomain url) to still be able to have a full-fledged juicy cvs with all the broken links, duplicate content, etc.

Thank you for your help!

Pascal Hämmerli

Hi,

Unless the SEO issues you are talking about are very serious, I would rather let search engines index the website from the start, to gain time. History is a factor in SEO and, for a new website, it may take time to get noticed by SE.

I mean that Google gives a positive weight to the fact that a website has been out there for a longer time, compared with new website. Moreover, if you implement Google Analytics from the start, you can start optimizing having already some data (vs. having no data at all when you start optimizing).

The only strong case in which it is wrong to index a website is if you thing people should not see it, which does not seem to be your case.

SEO is a process and a game of adaptation.

Wish you good luck.