Pages that did NOT 301 redirect to the new site

[ggpaul562]

Hi,

Is there a tool out  there that can tell me what pages did NOT 301 redirect to the new sites? I need something rather than going into google.com and typing in site:oldsite.com to see if it's still indexed and if it's not 301 redirecting..

I'm not sure if screaming frog can do that.

Thanks.

[EricaMcGillivray]

Yes, you can use Screaming Frog. It always shows you the status code on all the pages, which you can then sort based on it and find anything not labeled as a 301.

[davebuts]

Just to add a bit more information to this, Screaming Frog in default 'Spider' mode will identify old URLs and their status code only if it picks up links to the old URLs in the crawl (in which case you should update all internally redirected links to point to their new location), but if the old URLs are now 'orphaned', you won't find them in the Screaming Frog crawl report.

BUT, if you have a list of all of your old URLs (hopefully you ran a crawl before changing the site over!) you can use Screaming Frog in 'List' mode to find the status code of all of your old URLs and easily identify anything that needs fixing.

Cheers,

David

[ggpaul562]

And so would I run the OLD site into screaming frog or I'd go with the new site? Thanks.