Duplicate content even with 301 redirects
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I know this isn't a developer forum but I figure someone will know the answer to this.
My site is http://www.stadriemblems.com and I have a 301 redirect in my .htaccess file to redirect all non-www to www and it works great. But SEOmoz seems to think this doesn't apply to my blog, which is located at http://www.stadriemblems.com/blog
It doesn't seem to make sense that I'd need to place code in every .htaccess file of every sub-folder. If I do, what code can I use?
The weirdest part about this is that the redirecting works just fine; it's just SEOmoz's crawler that doesn't seem to be with the program here. Does this happen to you?
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Glad to hear everything is working for you Marisa. It's hard to know the root issue but again, it's great to know you are OK now.
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SEOmoz seems to have weeded out the issue without my doing anything.
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Hi Marisa,
If the issue is limited to the seomoz crawler I recommend contacting the help desk: help@seomoz.org. They can help you troubleshoot the issue.
I have not encountered this issue before. I checked your header codes and the redirect seems to be working well.
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