Why Google Search Console (GSC) reports redirects as other categories in the coverage reporting like ‘blocked by robots.txt’, ‘404s’, ‘soft 404s’, ‘noindexed pages’, and more.
If you are confused when Google reports redirects as other categories, like “blocked by robots.txt”, “soft 404s”, “noindexed”, “404s”, and others, it could be Google silently following the redirect and reporting the status of the true destination url instead. My post covers the situation in detail, and provides examples of this happening in the wild. … Read more
