My site auto redirects http to https. This is causing redirect chains. What can I do?
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I noticed that Moz flags a lot of redirect chain issues on my site. I realized that this is mostly because the site automatically redirects http to https, and when I create a new URL (when a URL changes, for example) it is automatically flagged as a chain.
Example:
Auto directs to: https://www.example-link
Which is then redirected to: https://www.example-link-changed (when the address actually changes)
I don't seem to have any control over changing where the initial http redirect goes. Any advice on fixing this problem?
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Where are you starting your crawl or check from?
If you are staring from http://www.example-link and you have SSL configured, then naturally you will be redirected to https://www.example-link - if that's the case, you can reconfigure your tools to start from the https version of your website and see what's happening then.
You should also check all your internal links and see if any of them are pointing to the http version and then update them all to the https version. This should sort out your http to https chains.
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