Is this redirect going to be a problem?

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Is this redirect going to be a problem?

Pamela_S

11:39 pm on Jun 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

Hi. I just set up a new e-commerce site on Volusion. We just changed the DNS setting a couple of days ago to point to our domain.

I am now noticing that when I type www.mydomain.com into the browser bar, there is a redirect url that briefly appears in the browser bar ( [mydomain.com...]

Then once the page loads, this appears in the browser bar:
[mydomain.com...]

If you click back to the home page from anywhere in the site, it takes you to [mydomain.com....]

I spoke with someone at Volusion and they said that the redirect should not be an issue with SEO. I am skeptical of this and that is why I seeking advice.

All of my product and catalog pages have .htm extensions and I am confident they are search engine friendly. It is just this home page issue that has me very concerned.

g1smd

11:44 pm on Jun 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

It looks like two URLs can resolve to the same content, both with "200 OK" status.

That *is* Duplicate Content.

Justin billy

9:39 am on Jun 10, 2009 (gmt 0)

I really appreciate your views! Thanks for sharing.

seogallexy

6:09 am on Jun 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

if Both the URLs are returning "200 OK" status and are crawled by Google then it will create duplicate page issue. You should redirect [mydomain.com...] to [mydomain.com...] using 301 permanent redirection protocol to resolve this duplicate page issue.