Moz Pro: Redirect Chain warning given to pages that don't have redirects

[jrichter]

When I look up crawl errors for a page, I'm always told the page suffers from redirect chaining. However, when I do a redirect check (in this case, using the Redirect Path Chrome extension), it indicates that my page does not use a redirect. Why would Moz detect redirects, while no other redirect checker resource does?

For example, this URL gets Moz's redirect chain warning:

https://www.aem.org/news/january-2018/5-reasons-iot-projects-fail/

But there is no redirect associated with this URL.

[dave.kudera]

Hey jrichter, thanks for reaching out!

so for this particular redirect chain in question, they URL you provided is actually at the end of the chain.  Here is the structure of the chain.

https://www.aem.org/News/January-2018/5-Reasons-IoT-Projects-Fail redirects to:

https://www.aem.org/News/January-2018/5-Reasons-IoT-Projects-Fail/ which redirects to:

https://www.aem.org/news/january-2018/5-reasons-iot-projects-fail/

while the structure of these look almost identical, you may notice the second url has added a trailing slash, then the third URL fixes the capitalization.  If you start with that first URL (we state as 'highest authority page'), you will see that the Redirect Path Chrome extension will show you redirect chain.

Hopefully that helps to clarify the reporting, let us know if you have any other questions!

[jrichter]

Thank you, that's very helpful.