Redirect_to in URLs?

[KatherineWatierOng]

I've never seen this before. I'm assuming that it's not SEO friendly and that these should be 301s or 302s instead?

http://ksa-beta.motory.com/ar/login/?redirect_to=http://ksa-beta.motory.com/ar/cars-for-sale-search/results/central/riyadh/ford/explorer/2010/ford-explorer-2010-1038353

http://ksa-beta.motory.com/ar/login/?redirect_to=http://ksa-beta.motory.com/ar/account/my-saved-searches/

[antonioaraya]

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>

[RobertFisher]

Antonio,

Really nice answer here.

[RobertFisher]

As Antonio says, you do not want to affect your ability to have people login. His answer is well thought out.

[KatherineWatierOng]

Thanks all for your great suggestions!