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Redirected pages still sending response code 200
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SEO Moz tool reports missing title tags on all the links that have been redirected. E.g. this page: http://www.imoney.my/ms/personal-loan
When I check the response code on the page with redirect checker it shows code 200 (page exists).
Has it happened to anyone else? How can a redirected page send a 200 code?
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Thanks, guys!
Your responses were really helpful. It was a bug on our Drupal, sending wrong redirect codes.
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As Jonathan mentioned you should indeed use a 301 redirect if it is a permanent redirect and a 302 redirect if it involves a page which is temporarily not available.
It does show the title tags so I think that solving the redirect issue would also solve your SEOmoz missing title tags issue.If you changed the 302 to 301 and it still shows that your title tags are missing let us know and we'll try to help you identify and solve the problem.
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I ran the URL above through two header tools, both returned 301s. Here's the header check info returned:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently => Server => nginx Date => Mon, 03 Jun 2013 06:17:24 GMT Content-Type => text/html Connection => close X-Powered-By => PHP/5.4.6-1ubuntu1.2 Expires => Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT Last-Modified => Mon, 03 Jun 2013 06:17:23 +0000 Cache-Control => no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 ETag => "1370240243" Content-Location => http://www.imoney.my/ms/ms/personal-loan Location => http://www.imoney.my/ms/pinjaman-peribadi X-Redirect-ID => 101 X-Frame-Options => SAMEORIGIN
And to answer your question, no, a redirected page should not return a 200 status code.
I hope that helps.
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On my browser the page returns a 302 (temporary redirect). It could be that MOZ would still expect the page to eventually resolve. A 302 usually means that the page is temporarily down or not available. Thus should keep the page in index as it should eventually re-appear.
If you are not planning on making this page available again I would suggest you use a 301 instead.
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