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Peer Review: SEO Best Practices for HTTP Status Codes

Danny Dover

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

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Danny Dover

Peer Review: SEO Best Practices for HTTP Status Codes

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

This post is part of an ongoing series where my co-workers and I are working to build a freely available resource center of up-to-date SEO best practices. As we write this content, we are submitting them for peer review so that everyone on the Internet can benefit from collective intelligence. You can read more about the SEO Knowledge Center here.


The proposed SEO best practice for this week deals with explaining what HTTP Status Codes are and why certain ones are important to SEOs. These 3 digit numbers cause all kinds of problems for search engines and SEOs that are related to indexing and redirection. While the resource page linked to below is not as directly actionable as the soon to be released page on redirection, it still serves as a good broad overview of the topic. As SEOs, we would love to hear your feedback on the following areas:

  • Are there any tools that you think are essential for beginner SEOs to know about for finding status code errors?
  • Are there any important status codes this page leaves out?
  • Is there anything specific you would like to see on the redirection page?

Please let us know if there is something we should add, remove or modify to make this page more helpful for beginners.


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Remember, this page is just a work in progress. We would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on how to improve it. Please feel free to leave your comments below.

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Danny Dover

Danny Dover is a passionate online marketer, influential writer and obsessed bucket list completer. He is the author of the bestselling book Search Engine Optimization Secrets and the founder of Intriguing Ideas LLC. Before starting his own company, Danny was the Senior SEO Manager at AT&T and the Lead SEO at SEOmoz.org.

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