Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I've recently built a site which has been spidered by google twice. Each time it only accessed the index page.
The page www.mydomain/index.php consists of the following code
Code:
<?php
header("Location: site/welcome/");
?>
after checking the headers returned, the page gives a 302 (temporary redirection) code. It's come to my attention that this might be what's stopping Googlebot from spidering the rest of the site.
Is this the case? If so what's the best way round this?
Let's just say that it won't help - but you should try to get more inbound links if you want your site better indexed.
For the redirect, you need to make sure it is a 301 Permanent redirect (or even better don't do it at all and have your site in the root folder).
<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: site/welcome/");
exit;
?>
