The “Page with redirect” error in Google Search Console shows a page on your website is redirected to a different URL when the user or Googlebot attempts to access the URL.
This means all the pages listed in the report are not showing in search results.
Nothing new, right?
At first glance, this error in Google Search Console may not seem like the “nectar of the gods.”
But after reading through 138 questions in the Search Console Help community and seeing that Stack Exchange saw 278 views on a similar question, I realize there are probably many SEO professionals who would leave their entire life fortunes to solve this issue if they could.
In the name of very serious SEO needs, I had to investigate.
How do I fix ‘Page with redirect’ in Google Search Console?
1. Manually review all the pages flagged in the report
First, I manually reviewed all the pages flagged in the Google Search Console “Page with redirect” report.
To access the report, go to Google Search Console > Pages > and look under the section “Why pages aren’t indexed.”
Once in the report, I look for two things:
Is the chart rising?
Was the last crawl date recent?
If you answered yes, I recommend exporting the data to Google Sheets, Excel, or CSV to analyze further.
2. Determine if redirects are OK
Once you export the redirect file, you must determine if the redirects are OK.
Redirects are OK in two scenarios:
Permanent move: If you permanently move a URL to a new destination, a 301 redirect is ideal to maintain its value.
Broken links: If you were fixing a broken link to a relevant webpage, this redirect is OK.
If you audit all the redirects on this list and decide all the redirects listed are accurate and intentional, you can stop reading. You are done.
I recommend revisiting this report monthly and doing a deep dive every quarter.
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3. Conduct a sampling of URLs using the Inspect tool
If you want to gut-check yourself, choose a sampling of 10-25 URLs from your export list to test in the Inspect URL tool in Google Search Console.
When inspecting the URLs, you’re looking to see if the status states, “Page is not indexed: Page with redirect.”
Also, the user-declared canonical tag should be the URL you created the 301 redirect to.