Get the most in-depth link redirect data available
Perform advanced, comprehensive and most important correct analysis of links, redirects, and Rel-Canonicals with this extension for your SEO analysis.
Link Redirect Trace helps you
- Find excessive redirect chains (e.g. as generated by WordPress)
- Spot Off-page and On-page SEO issues
- Improve User-Experience – Find and fix slow redirects using redirect timings
- See which websites were really visited through a Short URL
And you can
- See the number, LRT Power and LRT Trust to each redirect hop
- Investigate links from advertising & affiliate networks and the cookies they set
- Spot missing or wrong REL-Canonicals
- Spot indexation issues on each redirect hop level
- Export the full redirect trace as Image or CSV
Are you looking for an efficient way to track redirects and headers while browsing?
Domains not only have backlinks, they often have redirects.
Redirects are used to forward a visitor from one URL to another URL.
If a strange domain is redirecting to you, you should check this in more detail and find out if this is a valuable website or if it is harming your rankings.
We built an all-in-one browser extension to help you trace any redirect that you can think of.
- Redirects parsing and checking.
- META-Refreshes.
- REL-Canonicals parsing and checking
- HTTP Headers.
- Cookies.
- Robots.txt parsing.
- All the technical SEO stuff you need.
Enter Link Redirect Trace.
How the Link Redirect Trace Extension works
What the Link Redirect Trace Extension does for you
- detects every link redirect hop
- shows you the LRT Power*Trust™ per Link Redirect hop
- analyzes robots.txt for every hop
- analyzes HTML NoIndex, No Follow per redirect hop
- analyzes the HTTP header X-Robots Noindex, No Follow, NoArchive
- measures the time of a redirect hop and it shows you which redirect or URL shortener slows down user
- detects if a redirect is cached by your browser and allows to cache-bust and get the real results from the server
- highlights No Follow links on the pages you browse;
- ...and more
Always have all important SEO metrics at your fingertips.
What are the use cases of the Link Redirect Trace Extension and how it can help you
- discover On-page and Off-page SEO issues
- check your competitor’s links
- check your affiliate links
- check links after a website migration or redesign
- track a hacker website redirect
- improve User-Experience – Find and fix slow redirects using redirect timings
- detect a Google penalty
- ...and more
Understanding the Link Redirect Trace output
An explanation of the icons displayed by the Link Redirect Trace Plugin
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
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indexable by every bot |
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the links on the page are followed |
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the page has a Rel-Canonical redirect to another page |
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crawlable by major bots, some minor bots or scrapers blocked |
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NOT crawlable by any bot |
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NOT indexable |
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the links on the page are not followed |
Here is how you can read a combination of the above status messages:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
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indexable by every bot, links on the page are followed |
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NOT indexable, links on the page are not followed |
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indexable by every bot, links no-follow |
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indexable by every bot, page canonicaled to another page (so links on the page may not count) |
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indexable by major search engine bots, links on the page are followed |
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indexable by major search engine bots, links on the page are not followed |
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indexable by major search engine bots, page canonicaled to another page (so links on the page may not count) |
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NOT indexable, links on the page are followed |
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NOT indexable, page canonicaled to another page (so links on the page may not count) |
Link Redirect Trace Free SEO Course
Join our free online training
Learn more about redirects and the extension.
- Bring your SEO knowledge to the next level.
- Learn more about redirects and the extension.
- Understand the different redirect types 301, 302, 307, 308 and also REL-Canonicals
- Learn to read the HTTP headers
We will send you a confirmation Email.
YOU NEED TO CLICK ON THE LINK INSIDE
Some Things you will learn in the training:
Do you know if your links and, in particular, your redirects pass link juice?
This question has been unanswered for quite a while. That was the reason we added this logic to our toolkit in 2012. This functionality allows you to track your link redirects through several levels and also provides information about the structure of the redirect chain.
Are your redirects SEO-friendly?
Using the Link Redirect Trace, you can easily check whether your redirects are SEO-technically good and if they inherit link juice or not.
If the link redirect trace contains a 302 redirect or a meta refresh, you can quickly spot that and change your redirects to SEO-friendly redirects. In that way, you will gain more link juice.
