Dumb SEO Questions

(Entry was posted by Neeraj Pandey on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 09/11/2016).

Redirects Count

Is there any way to figure out how many redirects are coming to my domain?
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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

  • Neeraj Pandey: Is there any way to figure out how many redirects are coming to my domain? 
  • Edwin Jonk: Thinking out load: You could check your server logs and crawl the referer data to see if the referer status code is 301 or 302. However there are at least two problems: Referer data may not be sent (for example with http to https) and you are missing out javascript and meta-refresh re-directs.

    It is possible but if you are checking it manually it might be too labour intensive to justify the need. If you are doing it automatically you will be missing data - which can mean that the data is useless.
  • Dave Elliott: Out of interest why do you want to know this?

    If you mean referrals then edwin is right your log files are your best bet, presuming you have access.

    If you mean from your backlinks then you can just grab all the links for something like majestic and then put them through a crawler like screaming frog (everyone should have this program it is insanely useful) and see what status code they return.

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 09/11/2016).