does php redirection penalize site in google search?

[josecarre]

Hello all,

 

I installed my shop on www.mydomain.com/shop. As I found the .htacess system confusing, i thought I could just set an index.php on the base domain redirecting everything to /shop/.

 

the code on my index.php file in the base directory reads like:

 

<?php

header('Location: http://mydomain.com/shop');

?>

 

This simply works fine for navigation, but now i'm not sure wether this might penalize or not my site on google, because all the info about redirection I read mention the .htacess 301 system and warn about duplicate content penalization. I'm scared I get that penalty, but I'm not sure.

 

Also I set the php instruction to mydomain, without the 'www' thingy, I just copied the recipe somewhere from the web, is it ok?

[GotLiveChat.com]

Do you have a Google Webmaster Tools account? If yes, check the stats there as Google will tell you if there are any duplicate content issues. I think you can also issue redirect commands on their Tool as well.

[josecarre]

hi, gotlivechat, ty for your answer.

 

Yes, got google analytics and webmaster. They don't report any bad practice or duplicate content on my site. What quizzes me is I got many very good rankings for certain searches, but for a generic one I target (mine is 'children shoes' in spanish) I sit currently around #135, wich is clearly horrible.

 

I tried to tune up the main page to this search, and thus managed to bounce up from #195, but still I feel #135 is useless. I know 'children shoes' must be a quite competitive search. My puzzlement is how many sites with worse or sparse relevant content rank before me.

 

I wonder how would you rank the impact of this factors in google placement:

 

a - I don't have set friendly urls

b - My site is very new, its barely two months old now

c - My site adds up to 1500 visits now. Like 23 a day first month, 35 a day this month, currently increasing to 60 a day. Should I suppose all over me in page ranking fare better than me? How does daily visits weight versus content in google rank?

 

Ty, I hope you dont find this rant too noobish