Question on a 301 redirect

[themike537]

Hey, I just installed a new forum skin at my 3d poker source site. I wanted to add a link on the top nav bar back to my home page.

However, when I tried doing this it treated all my links as directories of the forum (I put xxhttp://www.3dpokersource.com/ and it showed up as xxhttp://www.3dpokersource.com/forums/http://www.3dpokersource.com/)

I made it link to "home" so now the link points to xxhttp://www.3dpokersource.com/forums/home. I then added a 301 redirect into my .htaccess file to redirect the above url to my home page.

Everything works perfectly, but I'm just wondering if this has any effect on SEO? Any advice would be appreciated.

[PPP]

Your question really shouldn't be about the 301, but rather what the heck software you are using that doesn't allow you to make something as blatantly simple as a link to your index page. Both those top homepage and forums links redirect, but that sure isn't the way to set up your site.

[Georgia Poker]

I had this happen once before and I can't remember why it was doing it. Let me think on this for a bit and I'll get back to you.

[mikebrad]

Here is your problem:
a href=home


should say:
a href=" h t t p :// www . 3dpokersource . com "

without all of the spaces, obviously


Is IPB not allowing you to change that. The problem with your code before was the fact that you did not use quotation marks. A 301 redirect is way to complicated of a fix for this simple coding error.

[themike537]

Ok, thanks, that fixed the original problem.

[themike537]

One more quick question.

I'm trying to redirect xxhttp://3dpokersource.com/forums/index.php?act=idx to xxhttp://www.3dpokersource.com/forums/ because if you go into any topic or sub-forum...at the very bottom of the screen there is a navigation scroll bar, and if you select home...it leads to the xxhttp://3dpokersource.com/forums/index.php?act=idx instead of what I want.

I can't figure out how to change it so I'm just trying to do a redirect until I figure it out.

In the .htaccess I have this, but it doesn't work:

redirect 301 /forums/index.php?act=idx xxhttp://www.3dpokersource.com/forums/

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[mikebrad]

Once again, I don't believe a 301 redirect to be the solution here.

I wish I new more about Invision Power Board. It seems to me that all you need to do is tweak your breadcrumb code a bit. I've never owned a site that uses IPB, so I don't know where to tell you to look.

[BlackHand]

301 Redirects are great. Especially when you use them in huge numbers.
Search Engines love them.....

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