The Page Indexing report in Google Search Console details URLs from your website whether they are indexed or not. “Page with redirect” is a common reason for pages not being indexed, but these are not necessarily problems. Redirects are used to forward users when URLs change. However, the report is worth investigating, especially if you see an increase in pages with redirect.
From the Page indexing report, you can click on “Page with redirect”.
The graph in our example shows a stable number of pages with redirect issues over 90 days, but you may see a sudden increase. This is a sign that something has changed on your WordPress website. For example, migrating to a new site, changing the slug of a post category or the permalink of a parent page can cause an increase in pages with redirect.
Examples of Page with redirect issues in Google Search Console
Under the graph, there is a list of example URLs. Google will show a maximum sample of 1000 examples – which should be enough to give you an idea of what is going on.
Thankfully, you won’t need to inspect every example. Often the same problem is being repeated. In this case, lots of the redirects, like and are links to downloads on external sites. Using redirects here is a feature of the website that allows the owner to track download stats. This is not an error; we want these pages to redirect.
Let’s look at some other examples of URLs not being indexed by Google because of the Page with redirect issue. Click on a URL you want to inspect and then INSPECT URL to go to the URL Inspection report
This is the report for
The redirects to At the bottom of the URL Inspection report you will see this destination URL as the “User-declared canonical”. The website owner is the “User” here. It means that by using a redirection, you asked Google not to index this URL, but to index another (the canonical URL) in its place.
At the top of the URL Inspection report, it is indicated that this URL is not in sitemaps and that it was discovered on a referring page If you find a report showing that a redirected URL is in a sitemap, then this is a problem you will want to correct.
At this stage we understand the reason for this redirection. The protuts.net previously had an English version and this was discontinued. All pages with /en/ were redirected back to the French version. This redirection is not an error, but something that the site owner wanted to do.
Another URL in the list attracted our attention:
In this report we can see that the page redirects to -telecharger-gratuitement/ but we note that the Referring page is an active page on the website:
Looking at this page on the website, we can find the link to at the bottom of the article. There has been an error when integrating the link. Thanks to redirection, the link still works, but passing links through a redirection is not optimal for SEO and it also slows down the passage from one page to the next. You should consider this as an error and correct it by changing the link on the page to -telecharger-gratuitement/.
Correcting Page with redirect issues in WordPress
If want to cancel a redirection
Redirections in WordPress may have been setup using the .htaccess file or the SEOPress redirection manager. Go to SEO > PRO > .htaccess to edit your .htaccess file. Go to SEO > Redirections to see the redirections set up on your site. You can Move to trash any redirection or disable it (uncheck Enable redirection).
See the following video to see how this tool works.
If the redirected page is in your sitemap
If the URL inspection tool indicates that a redirected URL is in a sitemap generated by SEOPress, then this means that the redirected page is still published. By including the URL in a sitemap and also redirecting it, you are sending mixed messages to Google and it needs to be corrected.
If you are sure that you don’t want the redirected page to show up in Google, you should move it to Trash or set its status to Draft. With SEOPress, you also have the option of setting the page to “Do not display this page in search engine results / XML – HTML sitemaps (noindex)” through the SEO metabox Advanced tab. This not only sets the page to noindex but also removes it from the sitemap.
If the Referring page is an active page on your website
If you have a Page with redirect issue and it seems to be coming from an internal link from within your website, you should correct the link. To do this you need to find the link on the page and correct it in your WordPress admin.
Done fixing? Validate fix
If you have corrected some errors, you can ask Google to validate the changes you made. From the “Page with redirect” report, click on the VALIDATE FIX button. This will start a validation process and Google will send you a report once it has checked all the URLs in the Page with redirect report. You can’t request another validation on this report until this is finished. Using VALIDATE FIX is not an obligation, over time Google will remove errors when they are corrected.
As with our example above, many of the redirections are not errors, but redirections that you want to keep. You should not consider them as errors or issues and accept that they will show up in Google Search Console’s Page indexing report.
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