What is a Page with a redirect?
The page with redirect is an error. It means that some of your pages aren’t indexed because users and crawlers entering them are redirected to other URLs. Google will index the target URL instead.
What is a redirect error?
when you wanted to forward users to another page, but you can’t find this page within the “Page with redirect status”, it probably means that your redirect didn’t work. In this case, Google Search Console should report it as the "Redirect error" status in the Page indexing report.
Page with redirect is NOT an error?
In most cases, having redirected pages is normal and poses no danger to the visibility of your website.
- You set up 301 redirects for these pages in the URL Redirect Manager.
- The redirect is from the HTTP version of your site's URL to the HTTPS version.
- The redirect is from the https://mydomain.com version of your site's URL to the https://www.mydomain.com version.
If you have outdated, irrelevant, or low-quality content on a URL, it's like getting rid of old stuff altogether. If you want to redirect it to another URL that has relevant content that serves a similar purpose. In that case, you can redirect.
Page with redirect is an error?
Redirects can cause indexing issues on your website. This is possible if there are redirects created by mistake. For e.g. if you see an important, canonical page reported as a “Page with a redirect,” you need to address it.
There may be two instances if you want to redirect your webpage.
301 redirect is a Permanent redirect You’re proceeding with the website migration
302 Temporary redirect You have temporarily withdrawn from offering a certain product and are replacing it with a seasonal equivalent..
How to Verify the Error Is Correct & Accurate
We first need to verify whether the warning served in your page indexing report is correct and that we need to fix something.
To do this, you can go to the Indexly page inspection tab and enter the URL details to see if Indexly is displaying the same error. Inspection Page UI will look like this
Fixing the error
Once you have identified if it is an error by checking:-
If a URL is in your sitemap, you surely want it to be indexed and generate traffic. The “Page with redirect” status for such a page indicates a risk of losing visibility for strategic keywords.
However, when you want to forward users to another page, but you can’t find this page within the “Page with redirect status”, it probably means that your redirect didn’t work. In this case, Google Search Console should report it as the "Redirect error". It simply means redirect doesn’t work.
These are the steps you can go fix the error!
- Go to your Google Search Console account and sign in.
- Click on the "URL Inspection" tab.
- Enter the URL of the page that you want to remove the redirection from.
- Click on the "Inspect" button.
- Once the page has been inspected, you will see a "Redirects" section.
- Click on the "Remove" button next to the redirection that you want to remove.
- Click on the "Confirm" button.
Once you have identified the error and fixed it, you can index your page with the Indexly Instant Indexing feature. for details check the below blog.
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