What is URL redirection?

URL redirection, also known as URL forwarding, is a technique to give more than one URL address to a page, a form, a whole website, or a web application. HTTP has a special kind of response, called a HTTP redirect, for this operation.

What happens if a page is redirected?

The result is that whenever a user tries to visit that URL, it automatically redirects them to: mattress/size/queen.com. On the redirected page, users should still be able to find similar information to the original, and they can do it without the annoyance of encountering a page outage. When should you use redirects?

What does “page with redirect” mean in Google Search Console?

“Page with redirect” is a Google Search Console status. It means that some of your pages aren’t indexed because users and crawlers entering them are redirected to other URLs. Google will index the target URL instead. In most cases, having redirected pages is normal and poses no danger to the visibility of your website.

What is a server-side redirect?

Whenever you use a browser to visit a URL, the browser sends a request to the server, which then directs the browser to the corresponding page. So, with a server-side redirect, the server handles the redirect itself — the browser asks for URL A, and the server will intuitively send it to the new URL B instead.