Redirect on Homepage

HI all,
My site automatically directs visitors to a sub directory when they visit the homepage...

IE: http://www.mysite.com/mysite/Main.asp

I know this has to be bad for the Google crawler because a redirect is occurring on the initial pageload, right? My developers are hosting multiple sites on one server. How important for us is it to get this site out of the sub dir in regards to SEO?

 

If the redirect is a 301 redirect, I think you should be fine. You may have some issues depending on if you get links to your domain name or your exact homepage url. I don't know if they would give you credit for the redirected links, although theoretically they are supposed to.

Ideally you wouldn't have that redirect though. So if possible I would try to move it to the main directory. Instead move some of the other less important sites to new directories.

 

if you are owning a server that hosting your websites, you can use IIS to set Host Header to point every domains to the sub directories in HDD. And your sites will be here:
http://www.yourdomain1.com/Main.asp
http://www.yourdomain2.com/Main.asp
http://www.yourdomain3.com/Main.asp
....
http://www.yourdomainN.com/Main.asp

they can be hosted together and will be friendly with SE