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Could a permanent redirect affect SEOaway from the root URL to /home cause the site not to be indexed?

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A friend of mine has a site where he allocated the content inside a folder named /home. He applied a redirection rule so that if you go to domain.com it does immediately go to domain.com/home. It is a permanent redirect since there isn't any content at the root folder.

Now, when I go to Google, Bing and Yahoo Search, and look for "site:domain.com" no pages are listed. The only page listed is the one with a link to the root folder at domain.com, and, as I mentioned above, there is no content or physical page at root, all the content is at the /home folder.

Can the permanent redirect be the reason why no pages inside /home are indexed?

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I've gone through the index status report at Google WebMaster tools and I get this report by today. Does it say anything interesting?

Ever crawled: 2,874, Total indexed: 2, Blocked by robots: 1, Removed: 0

EDITABOUT SELECTED ANSWER:

As @PatomaS explains, the redirection couldwas not be the reason why the pages where have not been indexed. It was just about time. Although, I am not sure if the redirection caused any delays on the indexation process. My friend had to wait more than 3 months to see his site in the search results, what I think was a long time.

A friend of mine has a site where he allocated the content inside a folder named /home. He applied a redirection rule so that if you go to domain.com it does immediately go to domain.com/home. It is a permanent redirect since there isn't any content at the root folder.

Now, when I go to Google, Bing and Yahoo Search, and look for "site:domain.com" no pages are listed. The only page listed is the one with a link to the root folder at domain.com, and, as I mentioned above, there is no content or physical page at root, all the content is at the /home folder.

Can the permanent redirect be the reason why no pages inside /home are indexed?

EDIT:

I've gone through the index status report at Google WebMaster tools and I get this report by today. Does it say anything interesting?

Ever crawled: 2,874, Total indexed: 2, Blocked by robots: 1, Removed: 0

EDIT:

As @PatomaS explains, the redirection could not be the reason why the pages where have not been indexed. It was just about time. Although, I am not sure if the redirection caused any delays on the indexation process. My friend had to wait more than 3 months to see his site in the search results, what I think was a long time.

A friend of mine has a site where he allocated the content inside a folder named /home. He applied a redirection rule so that if you go to domain.com it does immediately go to domain.com/home. It is a permanent redirect since there isn't any content at the root folder.

Now, when I go to Google, Bing and Yahoo Search, and look for "site:domain.com" no pages are listed. The only page listed is the one with a link to the root folder at domain.com, and, as I mentioned above, there is no content or physical page at root, all the content is at the /home folder.

Can the permanent redirect be the reason why no pages inside /home are indexed?

EDIT:

I've gone through the index status report at Google WebMaster tools and I get this report by today. Does it say anything interesting?

Ever crawled: 2,874, Total indexed: 2, Blocked by robots: 1, Removed: 0

ABOUT SELECTED ANSWER:

As @PatomaS explains, the redirection was not be the reason why the pages where have not been indexed. It was just about time. Although, I am not sure if the redirection caused any delays on the indexation process. My friend had to wait more than 3 months to see his site in the search results, what I think was a long time.

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A friend of mine has his site at domain.com. He, because of a framework and blah blah blah, hassite where he allocated the content inside a folder named /home/home. So,He applied a redirection rule so that if you go to domain.comdomain.com it does a redirectimmediately go to domain.com/homedomain.com/home. It is a permanent redirect since there isn't any content at the root folder.

Now, when I go to Google, Bing, and Yahoo Search, etc, and look for "site:domain.com" no pages are listed but the domain.com The only page listed is the one with a link to the root folder at domain.com, and, as I mentioned above, there is no page there actually (thecontent or physical page at root, all the content is insideat the /home)/home folder.

Can the permanent redirect be the reason why no pages inside /home/home are indexed?

If you need to look inside the site let me know so I let the real domain here. Thank you!

EDIT:

I've wentgone through the index status report at Google WebMaster tools and I get this report by today. Does it say anything interesting?

Ever crawled: 2,874 Total, Total indexed: 2 Blocked, Blocked by robots: 1 Removed, Removed: 0

EDIT:

As @PatomaS explains, the redirection could not be the reason why the pages where have not been indexed. It was just about time. Although, I am not sure if the redirection caused any delays on the indexation process. My friend had to wait more than 3 months to see his site in the search results, what I think was a long time.

A friend of mine has his site at domain.com. He, because of a framework and blah blah blah, has allocated the content inside a folder named /home. So, if you go to domain.com it does a redirect to domain.com/home. It is a permanent redirect.

Now, when I go to Google, Bing, Yahoo Search, etc, and look for "site:domain.com" no pages are listed but the domain.com page and there is no page there actually (the page is inside /home).

Can the permanent redirect be the reason why no pages inside /home are indexed?

If you need to look inside the site let me know so I let the real domain here. Thank you!

EDIT:

I've went through the index status report at Google WebMaster tools and I get this report by today. Does it say anything interesting?

Ever crawled: 2,874 Total indexed: 2 Blocked by robots: 1 Removed: 0

A friend of mine has a site where he allocated the content inside a folder named /home. He applied a redirection rule so that if you go to domain.com it does immediately go to domain.com/home. It is a permanent redirect since there isn't any content at the root folder.

Now, when I go to Google, Bing and Yahoo Search, and look for "site:domain.com" no pages are listed. The only page listed is the one with a link to the root folder at domain.com, and, as I mentioned above, there is no content or physical page at root, all the content is at the /home folder.

Can the permanent redirect be the reason why no pages inside /home are indexed?

EDIT:

I've gone through the index status report at Google WebMaster tools and I get this report by today. Does it say anything interesting?

Ever crawled: 2,874, Total indexed: 2, Blocked by robots: 1, Removed: 0

EDIT:

As @PatomaS explains, the redirection could not be the reason why the pages where have not been indexed. It was just about time. Although, I am not sure if the redirection caused any delays on the indexation process. My friend had to wait more than 3 months to see his site in the search results, what I think was a long time.

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