Index as Redirect

I have vbseo installed now, with vbnews also installed. In order to get vbnews to work properly, an index.php was created to redirect to /news/ ...

I am not sure how Google handles this type of redirect.


<?php
header("Location: news/");
?>

Will this cause a problem with Google?

It's suggested to use 301-redirect, insert the following above your code:

PHP Code:

header ("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); 


Thank you. I will do this tonight because the site was number one with search "insane politics" and dropped after this redirect.