301 redirect

[SEO Lady]

You must all be sick of the sight of me

I have found out that the company I work for has a dozen sites all 301 redirecting to the home site

These sites are not webmaster verified either

e.g.

valentinecard4u dot co dot uk points to FunkyP
fathersdaycards4u dot co dot uk points to FunkyP

My 2 questions are:
1 - Do we buy another 2 years on the domains
2 - Why does it say 'valentinecard4u dot co dot uk' when it's redirected to the FunkyP site????

 

[Ali-v-8]

not redirected
you have a separate website running on that url
or framed site at a guess

 

[Ali-v-8]

tried the url didnt work

 

[Ali-v-8]

ok had a look.
Looks like your sitting a framed site on that url
hence the url wont change.
Google wont cache it so dont worry.

 

[SEO Lady]

tried the url didnt work

Sorry sorry


valentinecards4u dot COM

With an S and com

 

[Birmingham]

that address is just a frame around this page: www . funkypigeon . com/Pages/Main.aspx?type=card&majcat=48

so i guess it's for making it easy for people to type in... more of a branding thing than seo?

 

[SEO Lady]

that address is just a frame around this page: www . funkypigeon . com/Pages/Main.aspx?type=card&majcat=48

so i guess it's for making it easy for people to type in... more of a branding thing than seo?

Easy for people to type in? I don't understand what you mean, could you clarify a little more please?

 

[Birmingham]

rather than typing into my browser blaa.com/pages/main.aspx?blee=blee&blee=blaa...etc.... i could just type in valentinecards4u dot COM

 

[SEO Lady]

I thought that if a 301 redirect was in place the address bar would show the FunkyP address, not the original valentinecards4u etc

Take a look at remind4u dot com and let me know what you think?
This shows FunkyP in the address bar and I want to know the difference

Thank you for your time it is appreciated

 

[DotNetWebs]

Sorry sorry


valentinecards4u dot COM

With an S and com

It's not a redirect it's running in a frame.

On a separate note have a look at your VIEWSTATE code - it is HUGE.

Your developers should be able to reduce that as it will have a negative effect on your page loading time.

Regards

Dotty

 

[DotNetWebs]

I thought that if a 301 redirect was in place the address bar would show the FunkyP address, not the original valentinecards4u etc...

See my reply above - valentinecards4u is running FunkyP in a frame.

Regards

Dotty

 

[Birmingham]

remind4u dot com is a 301 redirect, which is like being on the first floor and then taking an elevator to the second floor. you end up seeing only the second floor.

valentinecards4u dot com is just a frame, which is like being on the first floor and looking through a glass ceiling to see the second floor. you're still actually on the first floor.

 

[SEO Lady]

Thank you everyone.

The redirect was done via 123reg so it's not a proper 301 redirect like remind4u then?

Is it detrimental to have a dozen sites all doing this?

 

[Birmingham]

no major risk of penalties

only problem is if people are linking to valentinecards4u... the link juice will not be passed on to the internal pages. depending on how many people link to the outside frame... you could be losing a lot of link-based endorsement for your internal pages

 

[Ali-v-8]

Another job well done me think

 

[SEO Lady]

It's not a redirect it's running in a frame.

On a separate note have a look at your VIEWSTATE code - it is HUGE.

Your developers should be able to reduce that as it will have a negative effect on your page loading time.

Regards

Dotty

I've never heard of VIEWSTATE just had a read on t'internet and it should be as small as possible, having said that our site loads quick as it is?

I'll ask why it's big thank you

 

[SEO Lady]

no major risk of penalties

only problem is if people are linking to valentinecards4u... the link juice will not be passed on to the internal pages. depending on how many people link to the outside frame... you could be losing a lot of link-based endorsement for your internal pages

Your search - [insert url here] - did not match any documents.

Thank you again

Edit: and lol I just copied that and it would have given me a link on this forum wouldn't it

 

[SEO Lady]

OK so there's no disadvantage, but are there advantages?

 

[Birmingham]

not for seo. for branding maybe, as people remember a basic domain name and type it in easier than with a long webpage address

 

[DotNetWebs]

I've never heard of VIEWSTATE just had a read on t'internet and it should be as small as possible, having said that our site loads quick as it is?

I'll ask why it's big thank you

It's not to bad on the 'personalised.aspx' page but you valentines page is actually running this URL:

http://www.funkypigeon.com/Pages/Main.aspx

Have a look a the source code for the above!

It also means you have another canonical url.

Regards

Dotty

 

[SEO Lady]

It's not to bad on the 'personalised.aspx' page but you valentines page is actually running this URL:

http://www.funkypigeon.com/Pages/Main.aspx

Have a look a the source code for the above!

It also means you have another canonical url.

Regards

Dotty

Ah I think I know why - that URL you posted works for all the main pages, it's the way the site was constructed e.g. I just clicked it and it took me to Christmas cards, does this make any sense?

The site is being maintained and updated daily by 6 programmers, basically it was written off the back of the remind4u design and this is why it's designed like that

Last week there was a new implementation so that I could find the URLs to specific products

From http://www.funkypigeon.com/Pages/Personalise.aspx
to http://www.funkypigeon.com/Pages/Personalise.aspx?ProductId=2925

So now the site has gone from 300 pages to 3,000 in a matter of days. Google is indexing daily we have 1,040 indexed to date.