Google, SEO and 301 redirects on root / top folder

Google, SEO and 301 redirects on root / top folder - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Google, SEO and 301 redirects on root / top folder error on your web browser. Problem :

I've got a pretty unusual problem. A client has their site hosted on a friend's server that is basically misconfigured to redirect http://clientname.com/ to http://clientname.com/clientname. After this 301 redirect, the site works fine and subpages can be accessed via http://clientname.com/clientname/subpage.

However, the whole site is not indexed on Google and my FTP root folder resembles http://clientname.com/clientname/ which means I cannot put a robots.txt file on the top level. Moving to a different hoster is out of question for the client.

What can I do? I'm desperate.

Solution :

If the whole site is not indexed a robots.txt isn't going to help you as that is used to stop the search engines from indexing your content. Not help them do it.

Sign up for a Google Webmaster Tools account and add their site. Then submit an XML sitemap to Google. That will tell them where all of their pages are. Also, get some links to their pages from other sites. That helps the search engines finds them and links can increase the importance of those pages in Google's eyes giving them more incentive to index them.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the redirects, google, seo error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!