Will search engines see a redirected site?

[dag]

If I submit a domain that I have redirected (i.e., forwarded the URL), will search engines index it based on the redirection site, or will they not index it at all?

 

[Lord]

if its 301 redirect it should index it

 

[proson]

yes, depends on what kind of redirect are you talking about, 301 is fine, but don't use meta-tag refresh, since search engine will hate it a lot (think your website is a spamming web site) so use 301 with .htaccess or mod_redirect.

 

[dag]

Well, I'm just using a "URL Redirect" at the registrar (Enom, in this case) -- do you think they would be using a 301 redirect?

 

[Keral_Patel]

Well, I'm just using a "URL Redirect" at the registrar (Enom, in this case) -- do you think they would be using a 301 redirect?

Registrars do the 302 redirect.

 

[dag]

Registrars do the 302 redirect.

So a 302 redirect is no good for search engines, then?

 

[Keral_Patel]

What I have read is that google handles the 302 also very efficiently.

"From a search engine perspective, 301 redirects are the only acceptable way to redirect URLs. In the case of moved pages, search engines will index only the new URL, but will transfer link popularity from the old URL to the new one so that search engine rankings are not affected. The same behavior occurs when additional domains are set to point to the main domain through a 301 redirect."

Source

 

[jeremyshaw]

In this case, you would do better asking your hosting provider for a dns server (at least two, actually) and work from there.

 

[quyloc]

just 302 -redirection is indexed