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Is a Home Page Redirect Hurting My Search Ranking

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Post Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:36 pm
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I currently use prostores as my ecommerce software. Even though I have purchased a domain name, by using them they have it redirected from www.gowindholz.net to http://www.gowindholz.net/servlet/StoreFront
My concern is that the search engines will look at this domain as a redirect and not give it a high ranking. Anyone have any insight if this is hurting my site or not?
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Post Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:44 pm
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The search engines will follow the redirect and rank that page.

Use Google Webmaster tools and submit your site.

What is your alternative?
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Post Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:48 pm
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I was thinking about building a splash page with my root domain name then linking the store thru an Enter Here Link but I have read search engines also frown upon that.
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Post Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:15 pm
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You would be putting an unnecessary step to your store in front of your visitor. And I've not seen any of these types of entrance pages working any more. They just get in the way.

The most annoying of which is flash pages which take forever to load. I tend to hit a site like that and just leave. Who has time for some pretty marketing message to load up when what I really want is access to the content I came for in the first place.
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Post Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:55 pm
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Why don't you build a content rich welcome HTML page were you can welcome your visitors and give them some valuable information and my capture their email address. then send them to other page you want.

no search engine will give any importance to a redirect page.
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