: Google not enlisting our root page The structure of our angularjs site is like / /main /page1 ... /page9 where / is redirecting to /main. So we have 10 pages and Google lists 10 pages like

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Google follows the 301, 302, 306, 307 commands as expected. Such intermediate pages are not considered useful, though, and thus Google indexes them but does not show you such pages in its results. It makes more sense to send users directly to the destination, don't you think? This, of course, means that changing the main page once in a while will take a little time to get updated at Google (i.e. if you /main were to become /home.)

Now, it would be best if you could avoid that /main altogether and use / instead. "Just" display the contents of /main when users go to / and if you change that to /home later, Google will still point to your home page anyway! (since you'd be showing the contents of /home when a user is accessing /.)

Note that Google is likely to check your home page (/) once in a while either way. That way they can make sure that the redirection did not change. Actually, I have many 404 generated by Google for pages that I have removed so long ago I cannot even remember... They recheck any page that existed at some point in time, they are likely to check / out over and over again. If it "Re-appears" they are not unlikely to re-add it to their index fairly quickly.

So in other words, you're fine, but it could be a bit better. If that main page path is unlikely to change, or will change very rarely, then I wouldn't worry about it.

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