Can backlinks to robots.txt blocked pages boost domain's ranking?
Can backlinks to robots.txt blocked pages boost domain's ranking? - 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 Can backlinks to robots.txt blocked pages boost domain's ranking? error on your web browser. Problem : So, imagine, we were blocking some URLs via robots.txt, but apparently these pages were getting backlinks. Later, we decided to redirect these blocked pages to another domain of ours. ~1.5 month after we started redirection, our Google traffic dropp...