Page Setting: Redirect Type 301 - SEO error if no redirect page selected (breadcrumb)

[eBlick]

Internal redirect pages need to have a target in the page settings. Otherwise the link in the breadcrumb navigation will be the origin internal page and the redirection triggers after clicking the link.
This causes errors in SEO Site Checks where internal links should not target to a 301-URL.

To select the target upfront seems not to be appropriate because forwarding to the next regular subpage is a common feature.

The links from a forwarded page in the breadcrumb should contain the next regular subpage if no target is selected.

[leofeyer]

What exactly is the problem?

[fritzmg]

"SEO" wise, this doesn't actually matter, probably.

However, those check tools simply complain, that a link on a page that leads to another page within the same domain, actually response with a 301 redirect pointing to a page, that is also within the same domain. It would be more efficient to link to the redirected page directly.

So imagine a link of a Contao navigation module that says

<a href="foo.html">Foo</a>

where in this case, foo is a internal redirect page. When you open http://example.org/foo.html the webserver (Contao) responds with a 301 status code and redirects you to, say moo.html. This is a slight inefficiency, because the link could have pointed to

<a href="moo.html">…</a>

right away, saving one redirect for the client.

[leofeyer]

the link could have pointed to <a href="moo.html">…</a> right away, saving one redirect for the client.

But that's exactly like the navigation menu works already.

[eBlick]

Only if a redirect page is selected in the page settings.
If not, it is pointed to „foo“ first and will be forwarded via 301 to „moo“ afterwards.

Am 22.06.2016 um 09:40 schrieb Leo Feyer notifications@github.com:

the link could have pointed to … right away, saving one redirect for the client.

But that's exactly like the navigation menu works already.

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[fritzmg]

But that's exactly like the navigation menu works already.

Oh, right. Then I don't undestand what @eBlick means.

[Aybee]

Go to Demo. Set page Modules (modules.html) to Internal redirect. Do not choose a Redirect page. See breadcrumb in FE. Page Modules links to modules.html but gets redirected to navigation.html.

BTW there is an error with ModuleBooknav which gets included on page navigation.html

Fatal error: Call to a member function getFrontendUrl() on null in /home/www/system/modules/core/modules/ModuleBooknav.php on line 137

So you have to inactivate this CE first if you want to test.

[leofeyer]

Fixed in 09e8dba.