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The URL https://makitech.no/ventilasjon/ventilasjons-pakketilbud was correct on the 05.02.2018 (google cache time) and did at this time not have any rel canonical set. When looking at the Google cache all i se is a white page, but when clicking on "view text-version" and "view sourcecode version" i se the content. Not sure why google cache shows only a white page on "view full version".

Quote: "the more redirects you have in place, the slower the load times get".

The way it's working now, there is no redirect. The shop is fetching the correct content but serving it on the "old/wrong url" instead of doing a 301. But it appends the rel canonical to the correct url.

So i'am wondering if this is okay seen from Google's SEO eye

The extension i use is built this way and i can change the behaviour by changing the extensions sourcecode. But since it's built this way by the author, i wonder why. That's why i'am looking for an answer if it's okay practice.

The general load time is not optimized, that's also on my todo-list

Hi all,

This is my first post at this forum

I'am running a Opencart shop with a SEO extension installed. This extension has a redirect module which works like this.

When visiting the site on 404 url (and if there is setup a redirect for that url). It serves the correct content but on the 404 url with the correct url set in rel canonical.

For example:

Try visit this url: 
https://makitech.no/ventilasjon/ventilasjons-pakketilbud
Here i have setup a redirect to the correct content, which is actually this url https://makitech.no/pakketilbud

I am used to use a 301 header redirect so the user get redirected to the correct url.

So my question is this. Is it a okay practice to serve the content on the 404 url (it responds 200) when the correct url is set in canonical? Any thoughts?