Handling 307 Redirects

Key Takeaways

[Music] today's question is from lee mccoy lee asks how does googlebot interact with hsts 307s well in short it doesn't interact with them 307 redirects are generally not real redirects so what does that mean well when you make a site https you can optionally use hsts hsts tells users to only get the https version of a page so when a user enters a url or clicks on a link that would otherwise go to http the browser remembers the hsts and goes directly to the https version to make it clear what's happening it acts like there was a redirect chrome calls this a 307 redirect so if you use chrome and you see a 307 result code with a tool it's not really there when it comes to googlebot we try to crawl urls with a fresh slate so we wouldn't keep the hsts lists and rather just directly access the http url directly if that url redirects which is usually the case with an http and https site we would follow that so in short googlebot doesn't see the 307 that you'd see in a browser and that's fine i hope i got all the https and hsts is right and i'll see you in the next episode which is usually the case with an http i hope i've got all the https and hsts's right i hope i got all the hd