To Use or Not to Use a Forwarding URL for SEO

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To Use or Not to Use a Forwarding URL for SEO

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taliesin96

4:01 pm on Feb 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

I have a website, e.g., example.com. My blog is at example.com/widgetsales.

I have been giving out the widgetsales.com name URL as my blog url (and it is a forwarded 301 Permanent) to example.com/widgetsales.

Question - Am I killing my link building SEO if people are just putting widgetsales.com on their websites (instead of a direct link to example.com/widgetsales)?

[edited by: caveman at 4:17 pm (utc) on Feb. 20, 2009]
[edit reason] widgetized [/edit]

leadegroot

9:40 am on Feb 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

If you have correctly set up the 301, the value of the links should pass over to the final page.
(Caveat: most of the time - there are instances where the engines pass no value, eg you have 300 domains all 301ing, which are not on topic and you bought them for the link value)