Check for a 301 Redirect without USing a tool?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by trosquin, May 5, 2010.

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    IS there a way to see if a top level domain has a 301 redirect WITHOUT using a tool....ie...looking at the source code maybe? Why some may ask....just wanting to understand how the tool checks for this.
     
    trosquin, May 5, 2010 IP
  2. jan.onesork

    jan.onesork Active Member

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    You can't see most of the redirects in HTML code - you need to use some tool that checks http headers.

    I think that the only redirect you can see in plain HTML is done by this meta tag:
    <META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.example.com">
     
    jan.onesork, May 10, 2010 IP
  3. SamGrace

    SamGrace Member

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    Alternative ways to check:
    Go to Google SE and type query info:example1.com
    If the result is example1.com > there's no 301 redirect
    If the result is different, let's say example2.com > there's definitely example1.com using redirect 301 or 302.
    cheers,

    Sam
     
    SamGrace, May 10, 2010 IP