Seomoz crawl reporting thousands of 302 redirects?
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Hi Mozzers
I need a little help with Magento redirects.
We are using the Ultimo theme [1] and our crawl report has discovered several thousand 302 redirects occurring for links such as: Product comparison links and add to basket links which are formatted as “REPLACE THIS WITH THE INITIAL LINK” are rewritten to links such as “REPLACE THIS WITH THE REWRITTEN LINK ”.
Is there any way to stop this from happening? Should I change these rewrites to 301 redirects? Or is this perfectly normal?
[1] - http://themeforest.net/item/ultimo-fluid-responsive-magento-theme/3231798
Thanks in advance
@Anthony_Mac85
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Thanks Anthony. Very helpful.
- First thing. I don't actually see "add to compare" as an actual function anywhere such as http://www.deskcentre.co.uk/shop/next-day/next-day-office-desks.html - but it's in the HTML source code as well as Google's text only cache. Is this function something you want to exist? Because I don't see it anywhere
- Second - I am only seeing this as an issue for "compare" not "add to basket". The add to basket links are behind JavaScript and are not getting picked up on my crawl with Screaming Frog.
Two options then;
- If you in factDO want the "add to compare" function, you can block http://www.deskcentre.co.uk/shop/catalog/product_compare/add/product/ in robots.txt - allow that function for the user but not let Google crawl it.
- However, I am kind of thinking you DON'T want the function available because it's not visible and is does 302 redirect. If this is the case, see if you can disable it entirely and then it won't show up in your source code. If you can't disable it, you can still block it with robots.txt and Google won't crawl them.
Hope that helps!
-Dan
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HI Dan
Sorry for the late reply on this! I've attached a screenshot of the 302 redirect report in Moz.
The top one redirects to http://www.deskcentre.co.uk/shop/chairs/operator-chairs.html
Not sure if this is the screenshot you were after but just let me know if you need anything else.
Thanks for taking the time to help me out on this
Anthony
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Hi Anthony
This doesn't sounds like anything super harmful but I'm not too familiar with the inner working of Magento - is there a screenshot you could provide that might help?
Thanks!
-Dan
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