Redirect_to in URLs?
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I've never seen this before. I'm assuming that it's not SEO friendly and that these should be 301s or 302s instead?
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Thanks all for your great suggestions!
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As Antonio says, you do not want to affect your ability to have people login. His answer is well thought out.
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Antonio,
Really nice answer here.
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Don't redirect them, if you redirect those URLS, people will not be allowed to log in. When you are in a page and want to login, the URL has that variable, so when you logged succesfully you can go back to the page you were. E.g. Log from here http://ksa-beta.motory.com/en/dealers-search/ and you will get this http://ksa-beta.motory.com/en/login/?redirect_to=http://ksa-beta.motory.com/en/dealers-search
Instead redirect them and in order to save crawl budget, I suggest to:
- Add a nofollow for that <a href="">in the template</a>
<a href="">* Set up in Google Search Console that variable don't affect page content* Any other method the community can suggest</a>
- Add a nofollow for that <a href="">in the template</a>
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