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1. dou9las
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   This question relates to the steps outlined in the codex here:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

   I have set up several blogs in sub-folders, pointing back to the root…I know this is done a lot, and many blogs appear to do just fine with it…BUT

   It doesn’t appear to me that an actual 301 directive is in place, so I actually wonder why/if we don’t get penalized by the search engines for doing a kind of “masked re-direct.”

   Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this for me.
   -Doug

2. apljdi
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   All of that executes on the server before anything is sent to a browser, or to a search engine's bot. It all happens in a kind of black box. The browser, or search engine, has no way to know what is happening inside that box. All they know is the apparent directory structure that WP constructs. You don't need a 301 redirect unless you change how that apparent directory structure looks-- by changing permalink settings, for example.

   If you think about it, what you are talking about isn't a redirect at all because it all happens before the page is constructed. It isn't a redirect from one page to another, much less a 'masked' one. That is, you aren't loading one page and then having that page automatically load another page, masked or not.

3. dou9las
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Thanks very much for that explanation apljdi, that really does help me understand it better!

   Best,
   Doug

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