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Will page redirection affect SEO?

#1 User is offline   Lovelock 

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Posted 15 October 2011 - 11:47 PM

Hello, im new to SEO and havent even started doing it yet.

Im using oscommerce as my cart and the catalog is currently found at /catalog.

Im using a redirection script to make the domain go to the /catalog/index.php.

Im wondering am i going to hit problems when doing SEO?

Im using this as the HTML:

<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
setTimeout('Redirect()',0);
function Redirect()
{
  location.href = '../catalog/index.php';
}
// --></script>
</body>
</html>

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Posted 16 October 2011 - 01:17 AM

Actually, could I change the .htaccess to look for catalog/index.HTML?

Then have an index page within the oscommerce catalog which has the content for SEO on? This would be used ad the home page as such.

Example being:

www.vinylpenguin.co.uk/catalog/privacy.php

But have the privacy info as a index information page.

How would this rats for SEO purposes?

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Posted 16 October 2011 - 11:36 AM

Two things:

  • Google won't see the JavaScript - hence no redirect
  • Secondly, ensure you're making a proper 301 redirect using a htaccess file - assuming you want /catalog/index.php to be your main page in Google
Also and totally off topic, but why would any voluntarily use oscommerce? :)
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Posted 16 October 2011 - 01:24 PM

Ah right thanks.

And because it's free haha.

What's the best free cart then, most I find are like £20 a month. Sort of got used to oscommerce now :/
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Posted 16 October 2011 - 01:38 PM

Depends what you want it for. Lots of folks use Tomatocart, Prestashop, Opencart. For bigger, more complex shops Magento is the hands-down winner.
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Posted 16 October 2011 - 04:03 PM

Okay thanks I'll take a look!
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 10:49 AM

Robots can not read link inside javascript so its a bad idea to redirect, spiders will not index your page in javascript code.
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 02:29 PM

No worries now. I have moved the catalog files into the root of the site so now www.co.uk is the main thing.
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Posted 18 October 2011 - 04:20 PM

I saw a video by matt cutts from google saying that 301 redirects subtract a tiny amount of link authority from the redirected page, for obvious reasons but just thought i'd point it out. not sure if that applies to all SE's, but I would assume so

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Posted 18 October 2011 - 10:28 PM

View Postrobsticles, on 18 October 2011 - 04:20 PM, said:

I saw a video by matt cutts from google saying that 301 redirects subtract a tiny amount of link authority from the redirected page, for obvious reasons but just thought i'd point it out. not sure if that applies to all SE's, but I would assume so


Link to video?
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Posted 22 October 2011 - 02:35 PM

View Postrallport, on 18 October 2011 - 10:28 PM, said:

Link to video?


About half way down the page matt cutts talks about 301's
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