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[22 Oct 2009 | One Comment | 709 views]
Using Live HTTP Headers to check redirects

When a users requests a page from a website each page is returned with a header response, these header responses include:

200 – OK
301 – Moved Permanently
302- Temporarily Moved
400 – Bad Request
401 – Unauthorised
403 – Forbidden
404 – Not Found

In SEO the header response is very important, and needs to be checked. A great tool to achieve this is the live HTTP headers plugin for firefox.
Once installed you can check the headers of any web page request by clicking on the following logo and ensuring the captcha tick box is checked.

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