Does a redirected URL used in an anchor count as backlink?

Does a redirected URL used in an anchor count as backlink? - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Does a redirected URL used in an anchor count as backlink? error on your web browser. Problem :

If another website puts an anchor to our app to https://URL1 and this link redirects to our website at https://OURCOMPANY, does Google count this as a back link to our website?

Solution :

Googlebot follows redirects and passes Pagerank across them. Links that redirect normally would count as back links and help SEO. However, there are some things that could prevent that:

• Googlebot likes 301 Permanent type redirects best. If the redirect is some other type like 302 Temporary, meta refresh, frameset redirect, or JavaScript based; Googlebot is less likely to follow it and pass Pagerank across it.


• Redirects from deep URLs to your home page are seen as "Soft 404" errors by Googlebot. So if the redirect is from https://someothersite.example/some-deep-page.html to https://mysite.example/ (the home page), Google probably won't assign any value to the redirect.


• If the content at the destination page has significantly changed since the link was created, Google may ignore the link and the redirect. Google may monitor links and stop passing Pagerank when the destination page changes significantly. This prevents people from getting SEO value from acquiring defunct sites.


• Google doesn't like link spam. If Google thinks the link and redirect are spammy in any way, it won't pass any value across them. In the worst case, Google could penalize your entire site for spammy links.

So you don't need to worry about changing all the links that point to your site from before you changed your domain name. All those links will continue to work and you will get SEO value from them.

If you are trying to grab an old URL and redirect it to your site, that probably won't help at all and will look spammy.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the seo, redirects, backlinks error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!