Temporary redirects
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why is wordpress creating redirects from trackbacks and what can i do about it?
according to seomoz i have several of these kinds of temporary redirects:
http://redlandsorthodontics.com/about-us-2/meet-the-staff/redlands-orthodontics/trackback/
redirects to
http://redlandsorthodontics.com/about-us-2
what are trackbacks anyway since i didn't purposely create them?
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thanks for pointing that out
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great info.thank you
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There's a deeper issue going on - the pages with trackbacks aren't actually accessible from your site's menu the way it is now - these pages:
- http://redlandsorthodontics.com/orthodontics/children/child_braces-2/
- http://redlandsorthodontics.com/testimonials/redlands_braces_for_children/
All the pages with the trackbaks are being linked to (accidentally) from images.
Try to follow this chain
- This image -> http://redlandsorthodontics.com/wp-content/uploads/redlands_braces_for_children.jpg
- on this page -> http://redlandsorthodontics.com/testimonials/
- links to -> http://redlandsorthodontics.com/?attachment_id=362
- which redirects to -> http://redlandsorthodontics.com/testimonials/redlands_braces_for_children/
- which has the trackback -> http://redlandsorthodontics.com/about-us-2/meet-the-staff/redlands-orthodontics/trackback/ on it which has the 302 redirect.
You need to:
- Remove the links from the images. Go to media->select an image->edit->and select "link to NONE"
That should straighten it out.
-Dan
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To answer one question first - a trackback basically is an alert to you, the blog owner, when someone links to your post.
Great definition over at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackbacks
Wordpress often auto-creates redirects, as this saves you, the blog owner from considering these things and it minimises 404-Not Found... the main things that create a redirect are posts being moved or deleted, the same with comments.
As to whether you NEED to do anything about the redirects SEOmoz software is finding for you will depend on whether those addresses being redirected
- exist on-site
- Are linked to on your site
- OR are in the SERPs
Do a site:redlandsorthodontics.com search in Google/Bing to see if those pages exist in the SERPs.
The only thing I would say is that if the pages being redirected don't exist, or shouldn't exist, and probably won't be brought into existence then go into the .htaccess file and look for the offending URL and make it a 301 Redirect (Permanent Redirect, rather than temporary), as there's no need for it to be temporary.
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