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Disadvantages of redirect?

Aug 2, 2012 8:16 AM

Anyone know of any disadvantages of redirecting in the senario below:

 

I have a site set up in a subfolder called - 'newsite'

 

If I leave it in that folder and put a redirect from the current index.php in the site root directory to the index.php in the 'newsite' folder what are the disadvantages, if any?

 

Will Google spider follow the redirect is my main concern?

 

Cheers

 

Os

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  • MurraySummers
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    1. MurraySummers,
    Aug 2, 2012 8:27 AM   in reply to osgood_
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    Spiders will follow the redirection, unless you have forbidden that with a robots.txt directive.  Normally there wouldn't be a disadvantage to this kind of redirection - what kind of header are you using for the redirect?  A 302 or a 301?

     
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    2. osgood_,
    Aug 2, 2012 9:42 AM   in reply to MurraySummers
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    Murray *ACP* wrote:

     

    Spiders will follow the redirection, unless you have forbidden that with a robots.txt directive.  Normally there wouldn't be a disadvantage to this kind of redirection - what kind of header are you using for the redirect?  A 302 or a 301?

    Hi Murray,

     

    It's a 301 redirect.

     

    Normally I would unload the contents of the 'newsite' folder into the site root directory BUT files within the folder are linked to a database which contain links to the site pages - newsite/index.php, newsite/about.php etc prefix.

     

    Os

     
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