Would this affect the reported number of backlinks?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by popephatt, Aug 30, 2007.

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    I'm currently doing some SEO work for a company whose currently hosts multiple sites on a single IP address. Each site is set up in its own folder on the server and when a website is called up the user is redirected to that folder. So, for example--

    If I type in

    www.example.com​

    I actually go to something like

    www.example.com/Example/index.html​

    As best as I can tell, this redirection is handled by the server. So, this is my question: would the backlinks being developed for the site suffer because they point to the root address (www.example.com) instead of the actual address of the index file (www.example.com/Example/index.html)?

    Any thoughts would be appreciated!
     
    popephatt, Aug 30, 2007 IP
  2. adamjthompson

    adamjthompson Well-Known Member

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    I'm assuming that the redirection is a 301, but I would definitely get away from using a redirect.
     
    adamjthompson, Aug 30, 2007 IP
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    If your redirection is 301, there's no problem.
     
    kazhar, Aug 30, 2007 IP
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    popephatt Peon

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    Yeah I thought that it might be a 301 redirect, but I haven't found any .htaccess files in any of their directories. So I've been working under the assumption that they are using a script on (Tomcat) Apache to reroute traffic.

    So, if they're not using a 301 would there be an issue with backlinks being lost?
     
    popephatt, Aug 30, 2007 IP