302 Status Code for .com but 200 Status Code for .com/
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I ran a moz crawl report for one of my sites. For mywebsite.com I'm getting a 302 HTTP Status Code but for mywebsite.com/ I'm getting a 200 HTTP Status Code.
mywebsite.com -Title tag "blank" - Meta Description "blank" - HTTP Status Code "302" - Referrer "blank" - Content Type Header "blank" - 301/302 target "/" - Rel-Canonical Target "blank"
mywebsite.com/ - Title tag "correct tag" - Meta Description "correct tag" - HTTP Status Code "200" - Referrer "mysite.com" - Content Type Header "text/html" - 301/302 target "blank" - Rel-Canonical Target "mysite.com/"
Will this cause any issues with the search engines? Is there a way to fix this?
I'm on wordpress and use Yoast SEO premium plugin. I have sites ranking in many different niches and have done similar white hat SEO for all of my others. They are ranking in competitive niches but for some reason this site is in the 200-300s for basically all keywords in not a very competitive niche. It has excellent content, links and no penalties. I'm trying to find anything that could be the cause of this. Thanks!
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This is definitely going to be a server-level configuration issue. Are you on Windows or Linux? What webserver are you using (IIS, Apache, nginx, Lighttpd?) Any chance you would PM me the URL so I can troubleshoot?
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Thanks for your response! The problem seems to only be for the homepage. It isn't happening for directories.
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This could be part of the culprit, but generally Google is pretty good at giving domains a "benefit of the doubt" so to speak when it comes to homepage redirects. You should first figure out why the redirect from the non trailing-slash version of your page is a 302 and not a 301. This would be something likely set at the webserver level rather than in Yoast or Wordpress, and it ought to be a 301.
This is the code to make sure a trailing slash is in place for internal directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/$|.)
RewriteRule (.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]Did you notice if the same problem is true for directories as well as the homepage?
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