response.redirected

InfoSEO audit

The requested URL redirected to another URL.

What to change

Link directly to the final URL (internal links, sitemap, canonical) so crawlers and users skip the redirect.

The documentation on developers.google.com

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on every SEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. Info is a best practice: worth doing, rarely urgent, and --no-info leaves it out. Each finding takes 1 point off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check audit https://example.com --rule response.redirected

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_audit_page:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "response.redirected"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable response.redirected on the command, or disableRules: ["response.redirected"] to a tool.

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