Is 301 redirect sufficient to solve WWW and HTTP/S duplication?

Is 301 redirect sufficient to solve WWW and HTTP/S duplication? - 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 Is 301 redirect sufficient to solve WWW and HTTP/S duplication? error on your web browser. Problem :

I was reading about this article - SEO preference for WWW or HTTP:// protocol redirection? Do www websites rank better than NON-www?

I have same problem but I needed a help on this further. What about https:// How will this be treated?

Is the redirect 301 sufficient to solve the problem?

I have a SEO company that says if possible, i should not have redirect but I don't think this is visible? Does permanent redirect in any way have effect on SEO services if properly done?

Solution :

There's no intrinsic reason for either www or non-www (or http/https) to perform better than the other. The issue, usually, is content duplication arising from a site being accessible on both.

WWW non-WWW

For instance, if you site resolves on both http://thomas.com and http://www.thomas.com, then a search engine could index both versions, people can share and link to both versions… the effect being that the potential value, in SEO terms, is divided.

HTTP/S

Sites resolving on both http and https is an SEO problem for essentially the same reason. In general, each page should be accessible on either http or https, not both, depending on which is suitable to the security requirements of the page.

301 Redirects

These problems are routinely dealt with via 301 permanent server redirects, whereby users and search engine robots are transferred to the preferred, or "canonical", version (i.e., with or without www or http/https, etc.).

The reason for using 301 redirects is that they tell search robots that the redirection is permanent. That means they can transfer value (backlinks, PageRank, etc.) to the destination of the redirect.

So yes, a redirect is sufficient if used correctly. However, wherever possible, you should ensure that links within your site always go to the preferred address and, as a result, people (and robots) usually don't need to be redirected.

Your SEO company might have good reasons to recommend against using redirects, but as a guard against www and http/s duplication issues, they shouldn't normally be a problem.

I don't think websites with "www" rank better than websites without "www".

Otherwise, you can follow best pratices:

• Redirecting "www" to "no-www" or opposite (as you wish)


• Redirecting index.html (or index.php) to / (website root like www.google.com/)


• Redirecting http to https if you use https

Here, you avoid duplicate content problems and your site is "seo-safe" for these basic problems.

In other case, duplicate content can have negative effect on seo of your site.

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