All URLs in the site is 302 redirected to itself

[alex_goldman]

Hi everyone,

I have a problem with a website wherein all URLs (homepage, inner pages) are 302 redirected. This is based on Screaming Frog crawl. But the weird thing is that they are 302 redirected to themselves which doesn't make any sense.

Example:
https://www.example.com.au/ is 302 redirected to https://www.example.com.au/

https://www.example.com.au/shop is 302 redirected to https://www.example.com.au/shop

https://www.example.com.au/shop/dresses is 302 redirected to https://www.example.com.au/shop/dresses

Have you encountered this issue? What did you do to fix it? Would be very glad to hear your responses.

Cheers!

[davebuts]

Hi Alex,

I worked on a site a while ago that did something like this to get the location of users in order to serve them location-dependent product pricing.

These redirects didn't seem to hurt their organic performance at all, but the devs eventually got around to using some simple JavaScript to obtain location information, and the redirects were scrapped.

Is the site you are talking about using redirects to get location information? If so, I'd suggest speaking with the devs to come up with an alternative.

Cheers,

David

[zeehj]

Hey Alex–building from David's note. Without more information (like your site), it's hard to see exactly what's going on, but a few things come to mind:

• Are you using hreflang tags? If you're not, the 302 redirects may be a workaround that a content editor or dev put in place to get users to their appropriate location on your site. In addition to resolving these redirects, I highly recommend you implement hreflang tags in the of your site's pages so that crawlers know that these different international TLDs are all related.
• You should definitely remove these redirects, especially if there are versions of these URLs that exist with 200 status codes. There may be a rule in your site's htaccess file (you'll need to talk to your developer and/or server manager to update this), or within meta directives in the tags of your pages.