Technical SEO
Inspect the HTTP status and each destination hop to confirm a URL reaches the intended final page. Keep permanent redirects direct and remove loops, broken targets and unnecessary chains.
Read status codes200 serves content; 301/308 are permanent redirects.
Follow every hopOne direct redirect is better than a chain.
Update internal linksLink directly to the final canonical URL.
Status reference
Inspection
In browser developer tools, open Network, reload the page and inspect the document request and Location headers. From a terminal, curl -IL https://example.com/path lists headers while following redirects.
Preferred result
Consolidate HTTP-to-HTTPS, www preference and old-path changes where practical. Update menus, sitemaps and canonical tags to the final URL. Test representative pages and avoid redirecting every missing page to the home page.
If two rules redirect to each other, visitors and crawlers never reach content. Roll back the newest rule and test again.
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