Magento- 1675 302 Redirects - How to Fix?
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Hi Folks,
I would appreciate some help on this. My ecommerce website is built on magento and we currently have 1675 302 Redirects on it as pointed out by the SEOMOZ crawler.
Has anyone any idea on how to fix this or ave you being on the same boat as me. Im pretty sure this is why it coming up that I have a lot of dup content on the website also.
Help appreciated as always. Thank you!
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Curious if you ever solved this issue with temporary redirects? Our Magento site is doing the same thing, with enable cookies page , wish list page and compare product pages.
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The Yoast Canonical extension should fix that for you. It sets a canonical URL for the compare URLs that point to the actual Product page.
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whats your websites URL and I can look to see if you have the canonical tag working correctly. Just incase.
Also, magento 1.4 has the canonical tag as standard now, what magento are you using. I know one I switched it on and did a small bit of editing all my dup content was gone
after the next crawl.However, I still have a bunch of 302 redirects.
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I have the yoast canonical magento extension installed... so that should have taken care of all of the duplicate pages.
However, I'm still seeing it as being a issue from within my seomoz account. Could it be that I have the canonical tag in place and the seomoz crawler got it wrong.
Or should I take it that this is actually a more serious issue and that my yoast canonical extension could be broken?
Thanks so much for your response Dean.
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HI Freddie.,
I woudnt be very techy minded in regards to 301s and 302s so im unsure what approach to take.
I can tell you I got rid of all the dup content by inserting the canonical tag but I still have a large amount of 302s and im unsure what to do.
Anyone care to shine some light?
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I've also got a magento store with a large amount of 302 redirects. It looks like the majority of them are a compare product page or a add to wishlist page 302'ing to a enable cookies page.... is your problem similar to this?
Should I just have my developer change the 302's to 301's?
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Thanks. This is SEOmoz exact words with the problem.
Using a 302 redirect will cause search engine crawlers to treat the redirect as temporary and not pass any link juice (ranking power). We highly recommend that you replace 302 redirects with 301 redirects.
I have 1600 of these 302 errors, so how can i fix it?
The dup content is a seperate issue then, I thought they would be related? So by using the canonical tag, i can get rid of dup content?
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Yes that is correct, you need to 301 redirect or use a canonical tag to fix this.
but this is seperate to your 302 problem
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okay thank you. So for example, I am getting the below pages all as dup content for my homepage, this is happening for all my categories.
- http://www.unforgettablegifts.ie/
- http://www.unforgettablegifts.ie/?mode=grid
- http://www.unforgettablegifts.ie/?dir=asc&mode=grid&order=position
- http://www.unforgettablegifts.ie/?dir=desc&mode=grid&order=position
- http://www.unforgettablegifts.ie/?dir=desc&order=position
I was under the impression though, because of the above problem, google is actually spreeding my PR out amoung this 5 pages instead of one?
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I dont use CMS for these reasons, so i have not been ion the same boat as you.
I think it may be hard to fix if they are in the functionality of the CMS, if you give me a url i will have a llook at them for you.
A bit of good news, Bing will treat 302 redirects as 301 redirects if they are found to be inplace for a long time. but I dont believe google does, but even then 301 rediretcs leak link juice so thats not the best either (302s dont pass any).
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