Questions about Redirects
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Hi,
I am trying to make sure that I can determine if a site has a 301 redirect set up to redirect the site from domain.com to www.domain.com and am hoping that you can confirm the following for me, or let me know if I am off track:
- is http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/ a reliable way to check if a 301 redirect is set up?
- is Screaming Frog SEO Spider a good tool to use to see if a redirect is in place?
- if I search for site:www.domain.com and site:domain.com, I should only get results for the site being indexed, not for the site that has the 301 redirect set up, right? For example, if www.domain.com is set up to redirect to domain.com, then I should get no search results for site:www.domain.com and only show indexed pages for domain.com. If I search for site:www.domain.com and site:domain.com and get results for both, then does this mean that the redirect is not set up?
- if a redirect is set up from www.domain.com to domain.com, should the crawl report should only show one page crawled on www.domain.com?
- if a crawl report shows same number of pages for www.domain.com as for domain.com, does that mean that redirect is not set up properly?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Carolina
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Thanks for your help!
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Hi Carolina
Below are my thoughts on your question :
- Yes, internetofficer.com is the best tool to check the redirects. I also use the same.
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider tool is very famous & authenticate. This software gives you the detailed information of the website links. Yes you can definitely use this tool to see the redirects, errors, external links, URI Issues, file size, and much more.. This is a very useful tool for SEO's.
- Yes you will not get the result for 301 redirect set up link but after sometime of the redirection done. If you search for site:www.domain.com and site:domain.com then you might get the same results but only for the indexed pages. As per my knowledge google will only show the indexed pages in "site:" query. Also in your example the results will be shown the same on both the query i guess because you redirected the whole domain from www.domain.com to domain.com but yes it will only show the indexed pages in the results. Normally all SEO's do redirection from domain.com to www.domain.com.
Last both answers are perfect from the SEO5.
If you have any more que on any topic then i would like to help you.
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- the tool seems to work , did some tests and it is returning accurate responses
- Not used screaming frog, previewed the demo, it looks like good tool and the features mention the redirect check
- this might take a bit of time but eventually yes, the url that was 301 redirected should not appear in the search results
- wait for a while before you run crawl reports as it might take some time for Google to register the 301 that you have setup.
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