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1. I have, say mydomain.com which is my main domain. I also registered mydomain.younameit (about 10 tlds). They were simply being parked towards mydomain.com (FIRST ERROR, I GUESS).
So I defined permanent redirects for everything, www.mydomain.COM . I also took care of e.g. mydomain.com without "www"
If I look into the log file I see "301", so that seems to be ok.
2. The site is structured so that every country has its own subdir
www.mydomain.com/us/... (USA)
www.mydomain.com/uk/... (UK)
the root by default was used for (USA)
now if I accessed e.g. www.mydomain.com/index.asp
all the links on this page where already prepared for the USA part:
www.mydomain.com/us/page1.asp
www.mydomain.com/us/page2.asp
www.mydomain.com/us/index.asp
leaving me with duplicate content for the index page. Since Bot does what has been described elsewhere (get robots.txt (not present) , get homepage, go home - I was wondering if this double page is the problem.
So I built in another permanent redirect:
from www.mydomain.com/index.asp to www.mydomain.com/us/index.asp
This means that bot could be redirected twice, e.g.
mydomain.cc -> www.mydomain.com --> www.mydomain.com/us
Could that bring some kind of extra trouble? Sorry if that has been asked many times before - but I just didn't want to sit and wait for bot to return with some more appetite when there is something on my site that puts him off.
Something else comes to my mind: I said "USA" was the default country. It had been even worse before: the default country was picked randomly (by accident), so once the home page showed all the links for the us, next time maybe for France (in French).
I saw the results change in the SERPS every other day - until everything froze. Probably the spider was worried about those ever-changing links.
Now everything should be ok (no more surprises) - do you suggest I tell Google - or will the spider find out the home page now that 1. it is redirected, 2. stays the same
- and come back later on its own?
