Always follow redirects
Table of Contents
General
- Installation
- Installation on Windows
- Installation on macOS
- Installation on Ubuntu
- Installation on Fedora
- Crawling
- Saving, opening, exporting & importing crawls
- Configuration
- Scheduling
- Exporting
- Robots.txt
- User agent
- Memory
- Checking memory allocation
- Cookies
- XML sitemap creation
- Visualisations
- Reports
- Command line interface set-up
- Command line interface
- User Interface
- Search function
- Auto Updates
Configuration Options
Spider Crawl Tab
- Images
- Media
- CSS
- JavaScript
- SWF
- Internal hyperlinks
- External links
- Canonicals
- Pagination (rel next/prev)
- Hreflang
- AMP
- Meta refresh
- iframes
- Mobile alternate
- Check links outside of start folder
- Crawl outside of start folder
- Crawl all subdomains
- Follow internal or external ‘nofollow’
- Crawl linked XML sitemaps
Spider Extraction Tab
Spider Limits Tab
Spider Rendering Tab
Spider Advanced Tab
- Cookie storage
- Ignore non-indexable URLs for Issues
- Ignore paginated URLs for duplicate filters
- Always follow redirects
- Always follow canonicals
- Respect noindex
- Respect canonical
- Respect next/prev
- Respect HSTS policy
- Respect self referencing meta refresh
- Extract images from img srcset attribute
- Crawl fragment identifiers
- Perform HTML validation
- Green hosting carbon calculation
- Assume pages are HTML
- Response timeout
- 5XX response retries
Spider Preferences Tab
Other Configuration Options
- Content area
- Duplicates
- Spelling & grammar
- Robots.txt
- URL rewriting
- CDNs
- Include
- Exclude
- Speed
- User agent
- HTTP header
- Custom search
- Custom extraction
- Custom link positions
- Custom JavaScript
- Google Analytics integration
- Google Search Console integration
- PageSpeed Insights integration
- Majestic
- Ahrefs
- Moz
- Authentication
- Segments
- Crawl analysis
- User Interface
- Language
- Proxy
- Storage mode
- Memory allocation
- Trusted Certificates
- Mode
Tabs
Top Tabs
- Internal
- External
- Security
- Response Codes
- URL
- Page titles
- Meta description
- Meta keywords
- h1
- h2
- Content
- Images
- Canonicals
- Pagination
- Directives
- hreflang
- JavaScript
- Links
- AMP
- Structured data
- Sitemaps
- PageSpeed
- Mobile
- Custom search
- Custom extraction
- Custom JavaScript
- Analytics
- Search Console
- Validation
- Link Metrics
- Change Detection
Lower Window Tabs
Right Side Window Tabs
Always follow redirects
Configuration > Spider > Advanced > Always Follow Redirects
This feature allows the SEO Spider to follow redirects until the final redirect target URL in list mode, ignoring crawl depth. This is particularly useful for site migrations, where URLs may perform a number of 3XX redirects, before they reach their final destination.
To view redirects in a site migration, we recommend using the ‘all redirects‘ report.
Please see our guide on ‘How To Use List Mode‘ for more information on how this configuration can be utilised.
