301 and 200 Status Issues

[carlsutherland]

Hi,

Moz has highlighted that we have duplicate page content on our site, displaying the following:

http://bmiresearch.com/press  200 status code and http://www.bmiresearch.com/press 200 status code

We have setup a 301 redirect rule on http://bmiresearch.com/press to permanently redirect to http://www.bmiresearch.com/press and on Google inspect element network it shows this

http://bmiresearch.com/press  301 status code which mean redirect to this URL permanently http://www.bmiresearch.com/press 200 status code

Does anyone know why this might be occuring? Is it possible that because Google has index both URL http://www.bmiresearch.com/press and  http://bmiresearch.com/press with 200 status code? If so how would we correct this?

Thanks

[DirkC]

Hi,

When I try the URL http://bmiresearch.com/press both in my browser and on web-sniffer.net it gives a 200 status code & is not redirected to http://www.bmiresearch.com/press.

It seems that somethings wrong with your redirect rule.

rgds,

Dirk

[dohertyjf]

Hi Carl!

I just took a look and it looks to me like your page is working correctly? The Ayima Redirect Checker and using http://httpstatus.io/ with Googlebot as the agent, I see a 301 to a 200 on www.http://httpstatus.io/.

Are you still seeing the issue in your Moz reports? I don't think you have anything to worry about, as I don't see any non-www bmirsearch.com URLs except for your expected subdomains when I do this Google search:

site:bmiresearch.com -site:www.bmiresearch.com -site:store.bmiresearch.com -site:careers.bmiresearch.com -site:bmo.bmiresearch.com