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Importance: High
Error «Redirects with Bad URL Format» Description
Indicates addresses of the pages that return a redirect with bad URL format in HTTP response headers.
The Importance of the Problem
Redirect with bad URL format is equivalent to a broken link. It leads to wrong URLs unavailable for users and search engines.
Landing on such URLs, users see an error page instead of desired content, that's why they may consider the site low-quality and leave it.
When the site has lots of links to broken pages, search engines may also consider it low-quality and decrease its rankings in search results. Additionally, search robots waste resources on broken pages, that's why important pages may lack them and not get into the search index. As a result, the site may lose search traffic.
How to Fix Error
Delete internal links to redirects or replace them with links to available pages.
After that, recheck settings of every redirect and correct mistakes in the final redirect URL.
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