Redirect Checker
Many directories make redirects to external sites. As search engines are still mislead by some types of redirects, webmasters need to know which type of redirection is used to their site.
This information is also useful to directory owners as they are not always aware of the techniques used to count the clicks to external sites.
With this tool, you check a redirect in seconds, even if you are not a HTTP-header guru !
Which redirection ?
The fast and easy redirect checker
This tool provides a simple and precise answer to a question, often asked by SEO’s, directory owners and webmasters. It immediately identifies the three main types of redirections : 301 redirect, 302 redirect or HTML redirect (meta refresh).
It also detects frames (FRAME tag) within the page pointed to by the tested link.
The tool only analyses HTML links. It should not be used with JavaScript links.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Hi,
When I have tested with www.rentnet.com , it is redirecting to http://www.move.com/apartments/?poe=move in a browser, whereas the above tool says the following url is what is redirected which is not true,please explain.
http://www.rentnet.com/apartments/home.jhtml
February 14th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
In fact, there are two redirects. The first one is from http://www.rentnet.com/ to http://www.rentnet.com/apartments/home.jhtml (302 redirect). The second one is from http://www.rentnet.com/apartments/home.jhtml to http://www.move.com/apartments/?poe=move (JavaScript redirect). Our tool does not follow JavaScript redirects (it acts like a browser with JavaScript disabled).
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:32 pm
What a very friendly and efficient tool. Thanks. I was trying to find a way to see if a new client of mine was using 301’s like they were supposed to. After doing a search using your site, I found that there was in fact no redirect. Not good!
Thanks again for the easy to use tool.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Thanks for the useful service. Sometimes you just need to check this sort of thing instead of assuming it’s just working the way you want.
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:09 am
Thank you for this tool, found it via Google.
I just moved my entire site to a new domain using 301 redirect and also pointed a not-WWW version to WWW version. Tested all possible combinations and everything works fine. I like your tool, easy to use.
April 30th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
I’ve been seeing a Redirect message as 301-Error lately?What does that mean?
April 30th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
301 is not an error code, but a redirect code.
For more details, please refer to our article 301 redirect or to the definitions of the HTTP status codes at http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Thanks for the useful tool, used it the find out the hosting company are not using the redirect they are supposed to which should be a search engine friendly 301 redirect.
May 10th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Found through Google. Great tool. Verified that my 301 is working correctly. Now if my pagerank would just come back!
May 17th, 2007 at 3:45 am
This is really a great tool. I have used it several times over the last few weeks while rewriting my urls. It is nice to know while doing upgrades that my 302s are working correctly and it was even better to know that my 301s worked! Thanks guys.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Doesnt appear to be working??
May 25th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
It works from here. Please explain what is not working for you.
May 25th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Yes…
Working well
May 26th, 2007 at 11:37 am
thanks,sir. it’s really very easy and fast. nice working.
May 28th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Great Job! This tool is fantastic!
May 30th, 2007 at 9:42 am
A really useful tool with a variety of uses. Thanks
May 30th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
No its working now, i tried it the other day and it hung for about 10 minutes. Great tool
May 31st, 2007 at 8:36 pm
What does the following result stand for?
Type of link: direct link
I thought your tool was only to return one of these three options:
301 redirect
302 redirect
HTML redirect (meta refresh)
Thanks for the feedback and the great tool.
June 1st, 2007 at 10:43 am
Direct link means that the tool did not find any redirect. You get that when there is no redirect, but also when there is a JavaScript redirect (currently not detected by the tool).
Jean-Luc
June 11th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
The redirect check tool looks at a number of different URLs for your homepage, and reports back on the response code given by each. To be completely safe, a 200 response should only be returned by one page. Other pages should return a 404 or 301. Anything else could be a potential duplicate content problem.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
You wrote: “The redirect check tool looks at a number of different URLs for your homepage“.
That’s not the way this tool works.
Jean-Luc
June 13th, 2007 at 7:54 am
This tool is fantastic!
A really useful tool with a variety of uses. Thanks
June 21st, 2007 at 3:32 pm
(…) something screwy is happening here.
I have my old webpage:-
http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/super-nintendo-games2.htm
I have my new webpage:-
http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/snes-games2.htm
I have my .htaccess file:-
http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/.htaccess
Which contains the following text:
Yet it doesn’t work. Anyone shed any light on this?
AndyB
June 21st, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Andy,
It does not work because .htaccess only works with Apache servers and you have IIS.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:43 am
I’ve tried everywhere for an answer to my problem. I redesigned the website, set up 301 redirect for retreats.htm it works, but all the filenames with spaces in do not work. eg why nm.htm or why%20nm.htm will not redirect. In your tool this is listed as a direct link. Is there any way around this?
August 6th, 2007 at 11:24 am
I just found my answer. Need quotes in the right spot -
Redirect 301 “/why nm.htm” http://www.domain.com/dir/dir/d6.html
August 18th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
I Got an invalid url what does this mean ?
August 18th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
You get “Invalid URL” when the tool is not able to connect to the site (non existing web domain, DNS problem,…).
August 24th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Great tool. Maybe a’ good idea. Create the option to ad more then one url ad once.
August 30th, 2007 at 5:34 am
Hi,
I checked for frames info for http://www.impacinfrared.com . Undoubtedly the tool threw up the redirect info but gave no info on frames. Please help me check this info too.
thanks
Syd
August 30th, 2007 at 10:56 am
When you enter http://www.impacinfrared.com/, the tool reports a “meta refresh” redirect to http://www.impacinfrared.com/DE/.
If you then enter http://www.impacinfrared.com/DE/, the tool reports:
This looks correct to me.
September 7th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Thanx!
Amazing Tool
September 7th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Which experiences have you made with a 301 redirect??
September 16th, 2007 at 7:28 am
Thanks for this amazing tool! I have a quick question though; your tool says that I have successfully created a 301 redirect, but when I type in the url or click the link through search engines it will take me to the old page. However, once I refresh my browser it takes me to the new page. Ive tried this on different browsers and still get the same effect, any idea why?
For reference I am redirecting (among other urls) http://www.houstonlawyersdirect.com/Contact.html to http://www.houstonlawyersdirect.com/contact/.
Thanks in advance for your help.
September 16th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Thank you for your comment.
What you describe happens only once for each page. The “old” page that you see comes from a cache, most probably the cache of your navigator. New visitors to your web site (like me) do not see the “old” page.
More about “cache” in Wikipedia : Cache (Wikipedia)
October 11th, 2007 at 6:39 am
How can i findout which one 301 redirect and which one is 302 redirect? Can anybody help me in this?
Thanks in advance
October 11th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
ohh Well its a nice tool, I have it bookmarked and recommend to everyone at SEOChat forums
Glad to see, it can now detect “Meta Refresh Redirects” and the time as well which SEOChat redirect tool cant..
Good Job and a nice link bait
btw, you need to be number 1 for keyword “Redirect Check” ..
October 12th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Great Tool !!! A+++
November 1st, 2007 at 2:10 am
Hi,
Thank you for an easy-to-use tool.
It appreared to me to have an error, however.
URL that is redirected to is not shown correctly without “/” at the end of a checked link if you write on a .htaccess like this:
Redirect permanent /test/ http://www.newdomain.com/test
(without “/” at the end of a new location)
But 301 redirect works correctly.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:55 am
We cannot reproduce your error. Our tests show that the / does not appear at the end when redirecting to http://www.newdomain.com/test. Which URL did you check ?
November 9th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Thanks for nice tool. I have bookmarked your site. very usefull.
November 15th, 2007 at 6:47 am
Hi Jean-Luc,
I’m a Japanese SEO.
Happily, I managed to correct the error.
I’m sorry it was my mistake.
Thank you for your help.
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 am
wow this tool works well. imo better than SEO chat checker tool
December 9th, 2007 at 11:24 am
thanks for a great tool, i wasnt sure if one of my sites was redirecting properly but this tool shows that it does
December 27th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Very usefull, thanks!
December 29th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Do you know if Google would allow 302 redirects, for example, from xyz.domain.com/* to www.domain.com/xyz/*, meaning using the former for indexing and URL’s etc.?
Thank you in advance. GREAT TOOL!!!
December 30th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
It would be better to 301 redirect from www.domain.com/xyz/* to xyz.domain.com/*. Google would understand that only xyz.domain.com/* must be indexed.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Do you allow this script to be embedded on to other sites?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Hi Ezhil,
I sent a proposal to your email address. Thank you for your interest.
January 14th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Very useful tool! Thanks!
January 27th, 2008 at 12:24 am
nice tool…
any chance you sell that code?
January 27th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Hi “Nice Shower”,
Please send us an email with details about your needs and we will send you a proposal (email us at info@internetofficer.com).
January 31st, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Nice tool helped with my new domain move, thanks!
February 1st, 2008 at 12:01 am
i just tried this on a domain i thought wasnt redirected and this tool proves it
thanks
February 13th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
nice tool seems more accurate then the one from seochat
February 15th, 2008 at 8:25 am
i didnt think my redirect was working because I did not see a 301 response from the server, but your site says it works so now i can sleep at night! thanks for the great tool.
February 15th, 2008 at 9:58 am
very good tool have saved it in my favs
February 26th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Great tool, thanks. I was hoping you could help me though. Our websites are currently masking/cloaking their true URLs when you enter any of the other domain names we have registered for them. There is only one copy of the files so I’m not sure what method it is using to accomplish this. We host our own site on our server. Example: robertshawaiishuttle.com and robertshawaiishuttles.com (with an S). They all both reported as direct links by your tool. Please help if you can.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Sorry. After writing my previous comment it was decided to use a paid service to redirect the URLs in my example. I would still like to know why you think the masking/cloaking was occurring though. Thanks.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I see - from our log file - that you had both domains pointing to the same content without redirect and that you changed that about 30 minutes ago and now you have a 301 redirect.
You should be able to do the 301 redirect yourself by adding this .htaccess file :
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]
where you have to replace “www.example.com” by “www.robertshawaiishuttle.com“
February 26th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Thank you very much for the tip. I was sure there was a method for us to redirect from our own servers.
Do you know what caused the masking/cloaking? Is it some sort of default configuration or did someone from our company set it up that way unknowingly? Does it have to do with CNAMEs?
February 26th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I guess this was a default configuration. Nothing wrong with that, but Google doesn’t like this kind of duplicate content. The 301 redirect solves the issue.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Thank you very much for your help! I just wanted to make sure that using the .htacces 301 redirect would not conflict with whatever caused the masking. Thanks again!
February 27th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I check every now and then, and most of the time it states 301 permanent, but sometimes it also says temporary. Which is it? Also, will my PR4 on thelisashow.org transfer to the .com?
February 27th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Hi Lisa,
Your web server generates several redirections, one after the other. I got this:
http://thelisashow.org/
=> 302 =>
http://www.thelisashow.org/
=> 302 =>
http://www.thelisashow.org/?*******
(where ******* is a random number)
=> 302 =>
http://www.thelisashow.org/site.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/default.html
=> 302 =>
http://www.thelisashow.org/
=> 301 =>
http://www.thelisashow.com/
=> OK !
This weird series of redirects is not going to help you with Google and the other search engines. Maybe your system manager knows why it is done this way… Maybe it is time to upgrade to Apache…
March 5th, 2008 at 7:49 am
I got both through Google Apps and did the 301 redirect through godaddy. If by system manager, you mean godaddy, they’re not very helpful.
Strangely enough, thelisashow.org is on the 2nd page of Google search now. I used to be first for “the lisa show”. thelisashow.com is 2nd on the first page. Could it be they’ve acknowledged the transfer already?
March 5th, 2008 at 8:57 am
It seems that Google acknowledges the transfer. I cannot recommend to keep such a chain of redirects though. Are you using the Domain Manager of GoDaddy ? They have a simple forward option where you can specify 301 or 302.
March 5th, 2008 at 9:25 am
That’s what I did. Should I delete the old A and cname entries for the .org or will the simple forward option override all that already? Thank you SO MUCH for your help, Jean-Luc.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Their help page about domain forwarding explains that your need to park the domain with GoDaddy first. My understanding is that there should not be any old A and cname entries anymore, but, in doubt, you better ask a confirmation to GoDaddy support.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
This is a great SEO tool: simple and it works. My company, Image Forward, does SEO work for many website design companies and they handle the Domain Registration and Website Hosting.
We only get access the website and have to rely on the web design companies to tell us how domains are setup.
Your 301, 302 redirect tools really helps us to double check the domain setups.
Any chance you’d alter the code to allow a cut/paste of a list of domain names to check?
Tampa, Florida
Admin: proposal sent to your email address. Thank you for your interest.
April 8th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
great tool,tried it for my site and found a 302 redirect already setup.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:35 am
Great tool:) Is this possible to find domains that redirect to known domain?
April 24th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Great tool. Many domain hosting companies do not provide us with a 301 or 302 redirects and only frame redirects. Thanks to moderators and creators of Redirect Checker
May 9th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
thanks so much, your tool was really useful. my subdomain (www.mp3multiply.com) before was a redirect 302 , and i dont even notice, until some friend tell me about this great post. and now both mp3multiply.com (primary) and www.mp3multiply.com has done a direct link. so appreciate with your work