A simple tool to test if a website has the ability to rewrite URLs that don't contain the World Wide Web (www) prefix, a preference of Search Engines for the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs).
Simple enter a URL to a website or the name of a domain with the http or https SSL/TLS prefixes & press the big red and wait for our tool to do this thing.
As you might be aware of, we, at SEO Helpify, ❤ to help expert software engineers and beginner newbies alike, hence, we've crafted this easy-to-handle & simple-as-a-pie tool to help you with better Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your web application.
Once you submit the URL to the subjective website, a table will be shown. It will contain the domain name that you entered & the status of www redirection. This tells whether the website, say seohelpify.com redirects to www.seohelpify.com or not. This redirection is preferred by Search Engines.
What is a URL redirection?
A URL redirection is as simple as telling the mailman to deliver a letter to an address and then at the mailbox of that address, telling him to go to another address. In the world of web, redirection means to tell the browser to go to another page once it calls a server with the applied rules.
For Example: think of requesting the browser to load Youtube & it loads Fiverr instead.
I know it sounds wierd as we're used to Googling and not requesting the browser to load. But trust me that's how it works, we type in a URL & the browser requests the server at that URL for a response. Now the server can return several different responses. Every response has multiple attributes and the one we're considering is Status Code.
This code tells the browser what type of response has been received, whether the server isn't reachable with 500 Status Code or the request was successful and a webpage has been load with a 200 Status Code
What are 301 & 302 Status Codes?
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The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 301 Moved Permanently redirect status response code indicates that the resource requested has been definitively moved to the URL given by the Location headers. A browser redirects to this page and search engines update their links to the resource (in 'SEO-speak', it is said that the 'link-juice' is sent to the new URL).
Read more at these MDN Docs
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The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 302 Found redirect status response code indicates that the resource requested has been temporarily moved to the URL given by the Location header. A browser redirects to this page but search engines don't update their links to the resource (in 'SEO-speak', it is said that the 'link-juice' is not sent to the new URL).
Read more at these MDN Docs