First time on — I promised Penny I would join when she first started this forum so here goes.

I received this from one of the website registry sites after submitting my site on Geocites. Does anyone know if this redirect is from the Google verification that was inserted in my HEADER?? I know this site is trying to sell me services as they provided a whole bunch of analysis of the site and how they can "correct" all my issues. But I'm especially curious about this redirect. Is it valid?? I checked the CPanel and have no redirects there.

Here is what they had to say:

<- Click for more information… Warning: The URL you entered sent a redirect "Location: HEADER" response. Below are the redirect "Location: HEADER" responses sent by your Web server which the analyzer followed in the order received:

Redirect URL: http://shopweightlossproducts.com/

Redirection like this can cause problems with all major search engines and is the reason for our warning. The report below is based on the information found at the final URL location shown above and is the URL we recommend is submitted to search engines until you solve this problem.

It is recommended you verify the URL before submitting to search engines. Not all search engines will follow redirects and we highly recommend not submitting redirected Web pages to search engines.

Penny, Thanks for the extensive explanation.

So does one have the option of using the www –be cause I think even though many people don't use it today the majority of people still do. Search engine optimization is key to getting good indexing and one needs all the help one can get.