Help with Temporary Redirects on Pages
-
Hi Guys,
My latest crawl shows this: "44% of site pages served 302 redirects during the last crawl" When I click this to investigate the issue I see:
URL:
https://www.....
https://www.....
https://www.....
https://www.....
https://www.....And under Redirect URL:
http://www....
http://www....
http://www....I've recently read an article from Yoast that this is a https:// to http:// redirect (ofcourse ).
but why is this an issue that needs to be solved and how do I solved it?Thanks again for your help and thoughts.
Joost
-
Also found this article on Yoast.com: Moving your website to HTTPS
He says:
'If you’re a web shop or otherwise transactional website you probably already have SSL for your checkout.
If so, moving your entire website to https makes a LOT of sense to me, it’s probably actually easier to maintain and makes sure that you’re doing everything to make sure your SSL traffic (and thus the most important section of your site) is as fast as possible.'Moving to HTTPS is something different than 301 redirecting I suppose? Yoast says:
_'All of your internal links should start to use https, not just to pages, but for images, JavaScript, CSS, etc.
This means going through your theme with a fine comb and cleaning all of those up.
Of course you can have your web server redirect http to https (more on that below), but not having to do the redirect is a lot cheaper.'Thanks again! Joost_
-
Hey Chris and Patrick,
Thanks for taking the time to write and help me out really appreciate it!
Ok so I understand that a 301 is the way to go but what is better http:// to https:// or https:// to http://
(now I'm doing the last one if I'm correct, or is this a stupid question and can it only be done one way around?).I'm working in Wordpress with Woocommerce. I've got the htaccess plugin to update the htaccess file easily.
I also have a HTTPS plugin but not sure if i need to be there to change anything.Thanks guys!
Joost
-
Hi there
Fully agree with Chris here.
You should also be able to set this up in your htaccess as well, which will handle all http to https redirects (or vice versa) - more information here.
Like Chris said, this will all depend on your CMS and site setup. I would also suggest checking your internal links, update your XML sitemap, and upload that sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools to reflect this change.
I would also suggest using relative URLs in your internal links, that way if you change your domain or protocol, you don't have to individually update every internal link on your site. This is more for convenience for you and your team.
Just wanted to add a few more things - hope this helps a bit! Good luck!
-
To understand the issue you need to understand what a 302 is vs. a 301
a 302 is a temporary redirect, it tells search engines that this redirect is temporary and so the value of that page is never really moved in the eyes of Google and alike
a 301 is a permanent redirect which tells search engines that you've move that page and its never going back, Search engines then also move all the other gooness (like link juice) with this.
You want a 302 because it allocated all more page value compared to a 302, you can read more here -
http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection
In short because you're running a 302 redirect you're splitting the value of your site between the http & htts, and should be running a 301
change the redirects to a 301 and you will be fine, as for the how it depends on your CMS but i'm sure a bit of Googling can give you a hand.
Hope that helps & good luck.
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Redirect chains and rankings
Hi All, I've got interesting question for Moz community today. Has redirect chain got any impact on rankings or not? Thank you in advance.
On-Page Optimization | | Optimal_Strategies0 -
Web designer doesn't see duplicate pages or issues??? Help!
I have a website that has duplicate pages, and I want to fix them. I told my web guy and his response was: "we do not see any issues on our end. It is not hurting any ranking in the 3 major searches. We have no duplicate pages" Here's the site http://www.wilkersoninsuranceagency.com/ Here's the home page again http://www.wilkersoninsuranceagency.com/index.php Here's what MOZ say: Please see attached image. I'm not sure what to tell him, as i'm not a web person, but MOZ is telling me we have issues on the site and I feel like they should be fixed?? 7QWkVU0 tYCjV
On-Page Optimization | | MissThumann0 -
Temperary redirects
I have a problem with temp redirects, I have a dating site and the redirects happen when guests on the site are prompted to purchase a subscription while trying gain access to the sites contents. I was told to change them to 301 redirects but don't know how. any help, thanks guys.
On-Page Optimization | | clickit2getwithit0 -
Which redirect to use when redirecting to https page from http page
I have one form under https which is redirected from the regular http page. this site was not made by me and I am trying to understand if the way it was redirected using 302 redirect is a problem Thanks
On-Page Optimization | | ciznerguy0 -
Page Review Please
Can you please tell me what I can do to improve the SEO of this page. I feel like I am seeing the forest and not the trees or the other way around. I just want to learn from the errors of this page, so I can just simply learn http://azbestlistings.com/casa-grande-az-real-estate-homes-for-sale-in-casa-grande-az Thank you,
On-Page Optimization | | sansonj0 -
Missing meta descriptions on indexed pages, portfolio, tags, author and archive pages. I am using SEO all in one, any advice?
I am having a few problems that I can't seem to work out.....I am fairly new to this and can't seem to work out the following: Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂 1. I am missing alot of meta description tags. I have installed "All in One SEO" but there seems to be no options to add meta descriptions in portfolio posts. I have also written meta descriptions for 'tags' and whilst I can see them in WP they don't seem to be activated. 2. The blog has pages indexed by WP- called Part 2 (/page/2), Part 3 (/page/3) etc. How do I solve this issue of meta descriptions and indexed pages? 3. There is also a page for myself, the author, that has multiple indexes for all the blog posts I have written, and I can't edit these archives to add meta descriptions. This also applies to the month archives for the blog. 4. Also, SEOmoz tells me that I have too many links on my blog page (also indexed) and their consequent tags. This also applies to the author pages (myself ). How do I fix this? Thanks for your help 🙂 Regards Nadia
On-Page Optimization | | PHDAustralia680 -
Page Cache And Index
If you are browsing a site, what is the best way or programs to use to see if the page has been indexed and cached? Thanks
On-Page Optimization | | gregster10000 -
Page speed tools
Working on reducing page load time, since that is one of the ranking factors that Google uses. I've been using Page Speed FireFox plugin (requires FireBug), which is free. Pretty happy with it but wondering if others have pointers to good tools for this task. Thanks...
On-Page Optimization | | scanlin0