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 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).
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
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
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:27 am
Well, nice and clean tool you have in here… i can use it quickly once required to check a server redirection.
thank you for sharing it… for free!
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Great service. We used this to double check what our webmaster said he was going to do. Always good to have help to both learn and verify these technical details.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Good Day Jean-Luc,
I am getting a ‘301-error’ on a redirect I was checking which I suspect is problematic. On another I know to be good I checked and it said ‘301-moved permanently’. This must mean there is an error with the first redirect that I checked? I would like to find out more.
Regards
Linda
June 12th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Hello again. I found the answer:
“HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently” if you’re using Apache
“HTTP/1.1 301 Error” if you’re using a Microsoft server
Your tool is great!
June 12th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Hi Linda,
The text following the “301″ code is a comment. From a technical standpoint, it does not matter. It is unfortunate that the word “error” is used after “301″, as 301 is not an error code. Error codes are in the ranges 4xx and 5xx.
June 16th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Hi, great site… im having a nightmare trying to get these to work!
I want to redirect :
http://www.iirobotics.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=518
to
http://www.therobotshop.com/catalog/robot-toys/robot-friend/brian-the-brain.html
Any help would be gratfully accepted.
Alex
June 16th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
I would try this .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^products_id=518$
RewriteRule ^catalog\/product_info\.php$ http://www.therobotshop
.com/catalog/robot-toys/robot-friend/brian-the-brain.html? [L,R=
301]
June 16th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Hi, thanks for your reply… itried your suggestion and got
500 Internal Server Error
(but at least the code is doing something
Alex
June 16th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I would like to help, but this is out of the scope of this website. Ask the support people at your hosting company for assistance on this.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Thanks… I really appreciate your time…
Cheers
Alex
June 17th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Hi,
Great tool i take it there is no differents in redirects 301 is 301 no matter how you generatie it?
We are using ISAPI rewrite!
Thanks!
June 17th, 2008 at 10:21 am
The way the 301 is generated does not matter. That is correct.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Hi.
Does anybody know how to make the 301 redirect on tomcat server?
June 20th, 2008 at 9:17 am
If our home page has a 302 redirect on it to default is this a problem for SEO purposes? Should it rather be a 301? Are there any negative implications to our current PR by doing this?
I can’t seem to find anything that directly answers this even under canonical related issues.
Would I be correct in saying that if you have various versions of “home” (including non www and /default) that they should all be 301′d to one standard version? say “www.mydomain.com”
June 20th, 2008 at 9:38 am
The most important point is to redirect all versions of the address to the address with the content. If all these addresses are within the same domain, this will make sure that there is no duplicate content issues for Google.
I have no definite answer regarding 301 or 302 in your case. I believe it does not really matter here. When possible, my prefered solution is to 301 everything to http://www.mydomain.com/.
June 21st, 2008 at 5:09 am
I just wanted to say this tool has been VERY helpful for me with testing redirects, I’ve used it lots of times. I just wanted to leave a comment thanking you for it and also the support you’ve given in the comments is really great!
June 26th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
I used your html redirect code and your tool says it is redirecting but its not.
The original old site (pursuit-fitness.com) is already being redirected to THIS one (team-pursuit-fitness.com) from another hosting company — then THIS one(team-pursuit-fitness.com)I’m trying to redirect to an interim site. (teampursuitfitness.homestead.com)
Because team-pursuit-fitness is currently hosted at godaddy, I am told that simple forwarding won’t work. The directory only contains an index page stating “if the redirect does not work, click this link to the temporary interim site”…
I pasted in the 12 second html redirect code but it never redirected. I did delete the other code about content/text, etc.
Are there too many redirects going on or can there be no other text, etc., on the html index page besides the code?
Should I have left the other code there also?
I’m frustrated and confused. My only other solution is take it out of hosting and use simple forwarding but I think that the search engines won’t view that in a friendly way.
thanks.
Christine
June 26th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
You have to remove the word “seconds” from your HTML redirect code. It should be:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh"CONTENT="12;URL=http://www.teampursuitfitness.homestead.com/">
Thank you for pointing out that our tool was more tolerant to this mistake than standard browsers.
July 4th, 2008 at 6:02 am
I haven’t seen this tool before, very useful to identify redirecting site
July 4th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
The tool was helpful and easy. I am now trying to fix all 302 into 301s.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
It is real great tool and works great. I have just a tested a couple sites and tool show correct HTTP code.
I have compared it with similar tool from seoconsultants that show a little bit more informations but sometime failed to show any code.
Thanks
July 28th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Great tool for my customers who like to migrate from one domain to another.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Great tool, found it on google. I like how it tells me if its a 302 or a 301. Used a different website to grade the SEO features of my site and said I had an effective redirect when actually i had a temporary 302, which was actually hurting me. Thanks for provideing this great feature!
August 6th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I just checked my site with 3 different 301 checkers and none returned any kind of information. When I go to the other domain it redirects but I have no idea what redirect is currently in place. HELP!
P.S. Awesome job with the real backlink. I’ve stopped reading or using any site that has nofollow.
Against the nofollow movement!
August 6th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Hi Marcos,
In order to help you, I need to know which other domain is supposed to redirect to your site.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I usually preffered webconfs tool and bumped into this one through Google as it has better rankings than any other tools. Now i found it pretty much useful and will surely recommend it to some more of my colleagues.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Great, it is just what I’ve been looking for. I have a long list of directories on my backlog. Your SEO tool will make sorting much easier!
I will definitely recommend this to my readers!
August 17th, 2008 at 6:20 am
Hello Jean-Luc, thanks for your wonderful checker provided to us(users) free online. When i used your Redirect Checker to check my site, i got the following:
http://sn.vc/terms/ is “direct link”
while
http://sn.vc/terms showing “301 Moved Permanently”
WHY?
August 17th, 2008 at 7:11 am
This redirect is probably controled by your Apache config file. It is good for SEO.
August 17th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Thanks Jean-Luc, you’r such a great helper with extremely fast replied.
August 20th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Very nice tool to check our redirection. I suggest all of my friends to use this for Redirection Checking.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Great tool. However, how can I get the redirect of www.jobsity.net/clients to go to www.jobsity.com/clients ? Currently it redirects to www.jobsity.com/index.php?q=clients which I wouldn’t want showing up in search engines as it is an unfriendly URL. This is what I have in my .htaccess:
Options +Indexes +FollowSymlinksRewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
### re-direct any parked domain to www of main domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?jobsity.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.jobsity.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Thanks!
August 27th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Hi Jean Luc,
Thanks I figured it out. Those pages were doing something strange and returning a blank 200 confusing the redirect checkers. It’s fixed now! Thank you!
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 am
Thank you. This is a great tool I used to check 301 redirect.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
This is a great tool Internet Officer!
I have used it to test my transition and domain rearranging of the chairs! I am using a 301-redirect through the GoDaddy user interface to solve the non-www to www issue and the tool above reports a “301″. Mission accomplished (I hope)
September 5th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Oops, maybe I spoke too soon? The first time I run the test is shows “302″ and all subsequent times it shows “301″.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
The GoDaddy domain tool to forward a domain with a 301 redirect is very weird. I got this message from the GoDaddy Online Support team:
“Our system is setup to do the redirects in that format. On the 302, it resolves finally to the 302. On the 301, after a couple rounds as you have seen it resolves to the 301 redirect.”
GoDaddy is a great registrar, but do not trust their redirects.
September 7th, 2008 at 5:23 am
does the checker not allow for redirect checking of SSL URL’s? i can’t get any “https://” redirects to work.
if you can’t make that work, no big deal, i still love the tool. thanks Jean Luc…
September 9th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
You are right. https is presently not supported. I will post a message here when we become able to support it. Thank you for your understanding.
September 16th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Thank you. This is a great tool.
September 21st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
very good tool, have bookmarked on my browser
October 16th, 2008 at 5:43 am
I’ve been using this tool as the default redirect checker. But today I come here just to say “this tool is good!”.
Thanks and happy sharing.
November 9th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Great tool! been trying to work out how to do this myself programatically – but alas – now there’s no need
November 13th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Hello
I’ve Checked and it say its meta redirect, is this ok like 301 redirect for seo issues?
thanx in advance.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
What a search engine will do with a meta redirect is kind of unpredictable. Use it only when you don’t have any other solution to redirect.
November 18th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
HI all, anyone know why we get ‘Type of redirect: 301 Error’ back from this tool the redirect is set up in IIS as a permanent redirection? thanks.
November 18th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
The text “301 error” is sent by your IIS server when it sents a 301 redirect code. This is not an error. Maybe you can ask Microsoft why they put the word “error” there
December 6th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Is there any reason why Google Bot would be accessing old already redirected URL?
December 10th, 2008 at 5:34 am
http://escholarship.lib.okayama-u.ac.jp/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3590&context=amo
The above link is a redirected link or not?I don’t know.
Bcoz it is openeing a .pdf file .
I want the direct link of that PDF file.
I am using java.
Please help me.
December 10th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Acronyms,
Googlebot will periodically access the old URL as long as it finds links to that URL somewhere on the web. When there is no link anymore, it can take months before Googlebot stops visiting an old URL. This means that a redirect must be kept in place for a long time.
December 10th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Praveen,
No redirect is involved. The address in the address bar of the browser remains unchanged: this is a direct link that returns a PDF content. This PDF file could be dynamically generated. Even if it is a static file, it is possible that it is not in a directory reachable from the web. If it is reachable, there is no way to know what the path is.
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:06 am
Great tool but does any one have an isapi rewrite example of a 301 redirect?
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Neat and very helpful tool. Thanks!
December 30th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Very helpful tool, thanks for taking the time to write such a script
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:39 am
Just used it…it confirmed I did my 301 correctly…thanks for this nifty little tool
January 9th, 2009 at 1:49 am
I had a entered a site. Let’s call it http://www.foo.com
I looked at raw response of the site and the HTTP response was sending me to http://localhost/bar, however the browser, along with this tool, resolved that to simply http://www.foo.com/bar
Why is that? Does localhost in a redirect response equate to the hostname of the original request?
January 9th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Robert,
I examined the log file of our redirect checker and did not find any “localhost” in the HTTP responses. Maybe a glitch in the tool you are using to view the raw response ?
January 14th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Really nice tool, helpful for seo
January 20th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
okay,
Brand new to this. I built my site w/ Net objects fusion where u have no control of urls. i changed my directory structure from “site” to “asset type”, which changed my urls.
example: changed from www.mysite.com/Baltimore/baltimore.html to www.mysite.com/html/baltimore/html.
I created a file in notepad and named it .htaccess. Notepad automatically makes it a txt file. I erased txt in explorer and it left the file name as “htaccess”… not “.htaccess”. it wont allow the dot.
Does this matter?
I uploaded file to server in root. Here’s the code in the file:
order allow,denydeny from all
Redirect /Swimming_Pools/swimming_pools.html
http://www.creativelanddesignmd.com/html/swimming_pools1.html
Redirect /Maryland_Landscape_Design/maryland_landscape_design.html
http://www.creativelanddesignmd.com/html/maryland_landscape_design.html
Redirect /Water_Features/water_features.html
http://www.creativelanddesignmd.com/html/water_features1.html
Redirect /Maryland_Retaining_Walls/maryland_retaining_walls.html
http://www.creativelanddesignmd.com/html/maryland_retaining_walls.html
Redirect /Maryland/maryland.html
http://www.creativelanddesignmd.com/html/maryland.html
Redirect /Contact/contact.html
http://www.creativelanddesignmd.com/html/contact.html
Your tool gives me this message:
Response
Checked link:
http://www.creativelanddesignmd.com/Maryland/maryland.html
Type of link: direct link
Error message: the page contains an invalid “meta refresh” tag
January 21st, 2009 at 5:03 am
Hi Joe,
A htaccess file will not do anything. The file must be called .htaccess. You should be able to add the dot in the file name when you are connected to your server.
The error reported by our tool (invalid “meta refresh” tag) comes from this line in your page when it is called for the first time:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0.1">Our tool does not accept the use of a decimal dot in the content value (time in seconds until the browser has to reload the page). We will double-check the validity of this decimal dot and modify our tool if it should be supported.
January 30th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Is this tool working correctly?
I set up a 301 to redirect http://mydomain.co.uk/index.html to http://www.mydomain.co.uk/
My browser redirects to the new www address, but the tool does not show the www. The tool shows http://mydomain.co.uk/
Have I done something wrong?
January 30th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Strictly speaking, you have a chain of 301 redirects from http://mydomain.co.uk/index.html to http://www.mydomain.co.uk/.
The tool works correctly. It shows the 301 redirect from http://mydomain.co.uk/index.html to http://mydomain.co.uk/ and, if you test http://mydomain.co.uk/, it will show a second 301 redirect to http://www.mydomain.co.uk/.
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Thanks a lot for this very useful tool!
February 21st, 2009 at 6:57 am
Hi
I was checking pagerank for omni-pro.com
IT shws valid in some PR checker sites and invalid in others. I chkd redirect, it shws
Type of link: direct link
then why is it shwing fake PR
February 21st, 2009 at 10:49 am
Hi Sunil,
The PageRank can be provided by several Google data centers. Their huge databases cannot be perfectly synchronized. This explains why you can get different PR values.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 am
This is really a great tool
Thanx very much
March 6th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Simply put up, how to write the 301 redirect for .htaccess for following url:
OLD url: http://www.brigadeschools.org/tbisw/trackrecord.html
New url:
http://www.brigadeschools.org/InternationalSchools/trackrecord.html
Thank you
March 6th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Hi Pandu,
Try this:
RedirectPermanent /tbisw/trackrecord.htmlhttp://www.brigadeschools.org/InternationalSchools/trackrecord.html
March 6th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Hello Jean-Luc,
Thnak you, your response is too fast and greatly appreciated.
Looks like bellow lines working.
————
Redirect 301 /tbisw/trackrecord.htmlhttp://www.brigadeschools.org/InternationalSchools/trackrecord.html
————
Redirection Check Response:
———————–
Response
Checked link: http://www.brigadeschools.org/tbisw/co_curricular.html
Type of redirect: 301 Moved Permanently
Redirected to:
http://www.brigadeschools.org/InternationalSchools/co_curricular.html
———————–
Thanks again,
Panduranga
March 11th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Everytime I use your tool, the first time it shows as a 302 redirect, but when I test the second time it shows as a 301 redirect. I’ve been coming here everyday and always shows these results. Why 302 first and then 301 always?
Thanks
March 11th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Hi JJ,
This has been reported before: see this comment above. Some hosting companies do not redirect properly. This results in a chain of redirections with a mixup of 302 and 301 redirects. You can avoid this problem by taking care yourself of the redirect in a .htaccess file (Apache/Linux based hosting).
June 9th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Handy tool – much appreciated. Only comment would be to explain that 301 is a permanent redirect while a 302 is temporary. I have to look it up every time…
July 9th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I’ve just tested this on a site I know uses a Windows IIS redirect. The response I get is “301 error”, whereas testing a redirect on a Linux server gives the correct “301 redirect moved permanently” response.
Is this an issue? Or does it still account as a real SEO friendly redirect? Maybe it’s just a different header that gets returned from the Windows server?
Any light anyone can shed on this would be great.
Many thanks.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Very convenient. I just used it to confirm my 301 and it came out as I hoped. Nice tool.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:12 am
Really nice tool. Thanks. You saved my day. I am now sure that the configuration I have done is finally right.
Thanks again.
August 25th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Your tool is great. I’m showing intermittent problems with it. When I test my site I get a 302 redirect to my domain followed by a random series of letters. If I retest it several times, it get sometimes a 302 and sometimes a direct. I have not set up a 302 and don’t want one. I host through GoDaddy, could they be doing something? Could thier analytics tools be doing this? Appreciate any advice because its screwing up Google’s sitemap crawler.
August 25th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Jeff, you get different results when repeating the test, because this is the way your web site works. I am not sure if this comes from your application or from the GoDaddy host. Anyway this is not good for SEO.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Thanks for the good tool.
Regards Andreas
September 1st, 2009 at 5:20 am
Hello,
I tried it many times, but every times said invalid url.
Even I tried with another url still same message.
Kindly help how to check the redirection.
September 1st, 2009 at 5:33 am
Hello,
You got “invalid URL” because these URL’s were unreachable.
October 30th, 2009 at 4:41 am
very good ! thanks a lot
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