URL Redirect Checker

There are many variables that affect your website’s SEO and ranking, one of which is often overlooked — the quality and continuity of your redirects. Our URL Redirect Checker tool can help you understand what’s happening with your links, answering questions like: Are redirected links going where they should? Are redirect chains or loops causing problems? Are redirects passing on link equity and PageRank? Our redirect checker gives you all of this and more, allowing you to diagnose any issues that may arise with your links.

Why Check Link Redirects?

As mentioned above, links and redirects matter for your site’s overall performance, and the link redirect checker tool gives you the information you need to improve things where necessary. Saying that these things matter is one thing; understanding why is another. With knowledge comes the ability and urgency to ensure that you are doing everything right.

Site Redirect Check

The domain redirect checker tool gives you confidence that visitors are being sent where you want them. For example, if you’ve bought additional domains to prevent competitors from using them and to redirect traffic to your actual site, you may want to check the redirects. For example, if your main domain is www.example.com, you might also buy your site’s .ru URL, www.example.ru. Or a phrasing variant, like example.com and siteexample.com.

The website redirect checker tool allows you to check domain redirects to ensure these URLs are sending traffic exactly where you want — to your site.

HTTP to HTTPS Redirect Check

Security for those visiting your site, and for their information like credit card details, passwords, etc., is paramount nowadays, and the main way to tell users your site is secure is by having an HTTPS URL. According to Google, “HTTPS is the same as HTTP except that HTTPS tells the browser to encrypt the data being exchanged with the webpage. Encryption hides the data and reduces the likelihood of your information being viewed or modified.” An SSL certificate or Secure Socket Layer is what allows you to use HTTPS. While many third-party hosting providers and website builders do this for you, it’s not always the case.

Our SSL redirect checker tool will inform you if you need to take action.

301 Redirect Check

There are a couple of 300-level codes you need to know. 301 is the most important because it’s a type of redirect that passes PageRank and authority from the old URL to the new one; a permanent redirect telling search engines that this new link is the place to find the X-content now. Google then redirects the ranking, which is confirmed by a 301 redirect check.

On the other hand, a 302 redirect is temporary, telling search engines that the page has been moved but will eventually return. A 302 redirect does not affect authority or ranking and is often used during website redesigns or maintenance. You can understand why this distinction is crucial for SEO and why a redirect checker that can test 301 redirects is the fastest way to ensure you’re doing it right.

Redirect Chain Check

Redirect chains are exactly what they sound like, a series of redirects to one page. The problem with them is that too many redirects can slow down your site’s load time because so many links need to be loaded before they finally reach the destination. Additionally, your site becomes harder to crawl, and because of Google’s limited crawl budget for each site, you risk not indexing important pages.

The redirect tracing tool is especially helpful for finding redirect chains so they can be fixed.

Redirect Loop Check

They are sometimes confused with redirect chains, but a loop is different. While a chain is a redirect path that eventually has a final destination where the visitor can actually get to, a loop has no endpoint and will result in an error (ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS) both for the user and the search engine trying to crawl your site. In short, this happens; URL 1 redirects to URL 2, and URL 2 redirects to URL 1.

The redirect tracker can pinpoint exactly where the loop is.