301 Redirects
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Moz pro have crawled my site a few times now and is reporting 105 cases of 301 redirect.
Looking at some examples IE
http://www.indigocarhire.co.uk/faq/young-driver-car-hire/bromley
redirected to
http://www.indigocarhire.co.uk/faq/young-driver-car-hire/bromley/
only difference i can see is the traling /.... there is nothing set up in webmaster or in the website itself, so how come this and another 104 are being flagged as 301
Appreciate any help or advice
Thanks
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Hi Robert, any updates?
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Great, thanks for checking in, and looking forward to your confirmation!
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Hi Christy
yes i think this issue is now sorted. ill double check the next time the MOZ report is run
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Hi Robert, were you able to sort this issue out? We would love an update!
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Really appreciate your help Lynn
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Hi Robert,
It must be in your htaccess file, 301 redirects don't happen by themselves (perhaps this is the default wordpress htaccess behavior now?, I cannot recall off hand).
If you want to get rid of the notices and reduce the 301 redirects on the site as much as possible (which is best practice) then yes export the list and see where the pages that 301 are referenced from. One example I see is here http://www.indigocarhire.co.uk/uk-car-hire/scotland/ where the last link to Dundee airport is without a slash. If you add the slash then you have gotten rid of one of those notices! I expect you will find that they all slipped in through a common process, but it shouldn't take long to sort them out.
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HI Lynn, i see the option in Yoast but it is unchecked.
So you suggest that i export the list, visit each URL and add a trailing / to those missing them?
Really appreciate your help Lynn, Chris & Michael
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Hi Robert,
I suspect you have checked the 'enforce a trailing slash' option in the Yoast SEO plugin (under the permalinks section) but are linking to the pages without the trailing slash somewhere on your site. If you download the moz report in csv you can filter the results for 301 redirects = true and then the far right hand column will tell you which page linked to it. They are notices by the way not errors.
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Hey Robert, give these answers pertaining your question a read and see if they help:
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That is definitely a 301 redirect to the trailing slash URL. Good tool to check with is Fiddler.
Unless you have amended the htaccess file directly then a plugin must be making this setting, possibly something like the Robots Meta plugin.
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