Ok so how can you check HTTP status for SEO purposes

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Hi Guys,

The screen shot is something i watched in a video tutorial but i cant replicate it on a PC. Basically fro SEO purposes I want to investigate the HTTP status of chosen urls. I can see there is a curl -I -L www. thing going on but is this:
Via the
Command Prompt on a PC
& secondly nothing seams to work :frowning:
Any insights welcome :slight_smile:

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Going be the window title, it’s bash, not Windows CMD.

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But depending on your install of Windows, you could use bash on Windows: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-install-bash-shell-command-line-windows-10

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Bash? This is brand new to me, can i ask… the “curl -I -L www…” which returns the HTTP 200 where & how can i learn this?

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There’s a link in SamA74’s post to the wikipedia page. It

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Windows has completely different commands than Linux. You will need to figure out what the equivalent of curl is in windows if there even is one. The Windows command line/bash is not nearly as useful or easy to understand as the *nix one. In short it is much easier to develop on *nix platforms except for .NET. You could also try the powershell on windows which might be a little more user friendly.

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Far easier to use Google Webmaster Tools → Crawl → Fetch as Google

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Thanks John, i’m right in thinking Search console is limited to those that can prove ownership of the website, its not open to anyone right?

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HI Guys…

Good progress but some remaining questions in my quest for knowing the HTTP status of a web address. Using Fetch thanks @John_Betong :slight_smile: it tells me:

http://jackrusselldigital.com/social-media/
is redirected 301 permanently to:
https://jackrusselldigital.com/social-media/

From an SEO perspective this is OK because its simply pointing the non secure to the secure? Or is it a problem. I read that 301 can be problematic because they slow down sites and can confuse bots (so i read)

Any insights welcome :slight_smile:

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301 redirects are only problematic if you start chaining multiple redirects, not for redirecting one page directly to another.

See https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633?hl=en for more.

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I just google ‘header checker’ and use one of the returned sites. This one for example http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/ will return the headers.

I also use this https://tools.pingdom.com/ as sometimes even if you have a page correctly returning (200) you might have missing files or linked files that return other codes and this will show problems in the waterfall.

hth

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https://redbot.org/ is another option, and has a handy bookmarklet version, too.

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Just don’t buy too much of the SEO snake-oil, David!

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The Google Search Engine tool can only be verified by uploading a verification HTML page or inserting supplied verification script into a web page header. Once verified the owner can invite others to read-only share results but they are not able to change any parameters.

You can also check the http_response_code here for http, http://www, Https and Https:/:www to ensure the .htaccess script is set correctly:

Jb-url-test

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You can run cURL on Windows. I agree that *nix is a better dev experience, though.

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