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Unlinked redirect URLs

A URL that responds with a redirect but is not reached via an internal link from another crawled page may be a leftover hostname path, an old campaign URL, or a sitemap entry that should be updated. These rows help you audit redirect-only endpoints.

What we look for

We combine crawl discovery with HTTP behaviour: the URL returns 3xx while our index treats it as “unlinked” in the sense described in the product UI for this possibility type (see your row details for provenance).

What to do

Either add intentional links if the URL should be traversed, remove obsolete URLs from sitemaps, or consolidate to a final destination URL so crawlers and users skip unnecessary hops.

Example

If a campaign URL only redirects and nothing on the site links to it, either link to it on purpose or stop listing it in your XML sitemap and use the canonical product URL in navigation:

<!-- Prefer linking to the final page users should land on -->

<a href="https://seoperception.com/products/leather-tote">Shop the leather tote</a>

<!-- Optional: campaign URL only if you still need it indexed -->
<a href="https://seoperception.com/go/summer-sale">Summer sale landing</a>

Technical details

See How the crawler works and How we find possibilities.