301 Redirects to relative URLs not absolute a problem?
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Hi we recently did a migration and a lot of content changed locations see:
Basically, the 301 goes to the correct location but its a relative URL (as you can see from the screenshot) rather than absolute URL.
Do you think this is a high priority issue from an SEO standpoint, should we get the developer to change the redirects to absolute?
Cheers.
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Hi,
Destination url should be absolute not relative.
Thanks
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