Solved: Why are redirected pages not getting indexed? - Page 2

cossettej · ‎07-02-2018

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Hello,

About a month ago the Google Search Console started reporting that my website search results essentially dropped to zero. Digging a little deeper, I noticed that this corresponded to a sharp increase in pages that are no longer indexed due to a "redirect". As of right now, pretty much all of my main pages (71 in total) are excluded from the index because of this problem but I never set up any 301 redirects on these urls.

It looks like they are all redirecting to the same url that is being navigated to. For example, here is the google fetch result that I'm getting for the page

https://passionatelycurioussci.weebly.com/blog/building-by-design

<html>

<head>

<title>Redirecting to https://passionatelycurioussci.weebly.com/blog/building-by-design</title>

</head>

<body>

Redirecting to <a href="https://passionatelycurioussci.weebly.com/blog/building-by-design">https://passionatelycurioussci.we...>.

</body>

</html

As far as I can tell, the url "https://passionatelycurioussci.weebly.com/blog/building-by-design" automatically redirects to "https://passionatelycurioussci.weebly.com/blog/building-by-design" which is exactly the same thing but since that redirect is there, the page gets excluded from my index.

Is there a way that I can get rid of these unnecessary redirects? Why did they randomly just show up a month ago?

Thanks!

cossettej · ‎07-09-2018

I figured it out!! It turns out that I was tracking the url http://passionatelycurioussci.weebly.com/ and all of the pages were redirecting to https://passionatelycurioussci.weebly.com/ as of the time that I saw my index drop off. It was such a subtle redirect change that I didn't notice the difference and I was thrown off the track by how abruptly I saw a drop in my search tracking.

I was able to reindex and track the https:// domain and I can see that my site is indeed still showing up in the searches.

Thanks for your help looking into this!

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Bernadette3 · ‎04-09-2019

Awesome! Glad to hear you were able to solve it on your own.

shuttsv · ‎03-06-2019

Thank you! I had the same problem and only figured it out after reading your post.

shankargudeshar · ‎07-31-2019

page with redirect error sir

Bernadette3 · ‎07-31-2019

Hi @shankargudeshar Can you please clarify what you mean by this? Thanks!

LindaUK · ‎01-09-2020

Hello All!

I have the same issues just looked at my google search console and noticed 52 pages : pages with redirect Status excluded - and getting more by the day on pages with https: on some of my main pages.

I understand from reading all the posts what happened - I accidently turned off the SSL on my site and then turned it back on a few days later.

Do i need to do anything with the redicts - or will it automatically update on weebly?

Many thanks!

Linda

Bernadette3 · ‎01-09-2020

Hi Linda. These should automatically redirect for you. I can initiate a redirect on your site, but it may be best (just to be on the safe side) to resubmit your site to Google. I don't believe this is necessary, but it won't hurt. Can you please just confirm the site name? Thanks!

julieanne · ‎09-09-2021

Hi. I receive the following information when I check up on whether my new site has been indexed by Google. Can anyone advise what I should do?

error

Coverage

Redirect error

Discovery

Sitemaps

N/A

Referring page

None detected

URL might be known from other sources that are currently not reported

Crawl

Last crawl

Sep 7, 2021, 9:20:31 AM

Crawled as

Googlebot desktop

Crawl allowed?

Yes

Page fetch

error

Failed: Redirect error

Indexing allowed?

N/A

Indexing

User-declared canonical

N/A

Google-selected canonical



N/A

Bernadette3 · ‎09-10-2021

Hi @julieanne I moved your post over to this thread. There's some suggestions that may help you out.