Redirect Chain Domain

[StickyLife]

MozPro is highlighting some redirect chain issues with our domain that I do not recall ever setting up in our redirect list. In our Moz Pro Campaign I see the Site Crawl has flagged 36 Redirect Chain Issues. I understand how the redirect chain errors can happen but I do not recall ever manually redirecting our domain, yet I have http://stickylife.com, https://stickylife.com & https://www.stickylife.com all associated in one of our redirect chain errors.

When looking at our redirect files I do not see any of these domain redirects and wonder how this has happened and how to fix it.

It appears as though our HTTP and HTTPS is causing some redirection. I wonder if this is coming from our DNS settings?

[Ian_Lewis]

Hi,

I've put the URL into a redirect mapping tool and I can see that the redirects are happening to send all users to the secure version of your site.

In my opinion this is a good thing as everyone who visits your site will reach the secure version, and you redirect all different alterations of your URL so that would avoid duplicate content.

If you had a http:// and a https:// version of your site both accessible that could be seen as duplicate content, so directing all users to one version of the site will help.

For future reference check out this handy tool to see the inforgraphic I see, when I inputted your URL.

https://varvy.com/tools/redirects/

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Ian

[StickyLife]

It is true that we want all traffic going to our secure version of our site. We want all traffic redirected to the secure version but we do not know why it triggering a Redirect Chain when this has never been setup as a redirect but rather setup through our DNS settings.

We're getting a higher page authority for https://stickylife.com/ versus our https://www.stickylife.com/ url. Not sure why but the domain should not be chained at all. This is what I want to figure out.

Once we understand why this is happening to our domain we might be able to fix the issue for the other pages that are showing the same issue.

[Ian_Lewis]

Hi,

I think there is only 1 redirect chain happening and that seems to be from the http://stickylife.com URL which redirects to the https://stickylife.com and then redirects to https://www.stickylife.com

Could you place a redirect on the http://stickylife.com URL to redirect straight to the https://www.stickylife.com URL?

Here is a more detailed article into how to fix redirect chains https://moz.com/blog/heres-how-to-keep-301-redirects-from-ruining-your-seo

If one URL is gaining a higher page authority than the other, have you considered placing a canonical tag to said URL explaining to Google what URL you want to rank?