Why Don't Ahrefs/Moz See Some Redirects?

[baldidiot]

Maybe "don't see" isn't the right word, but perhaps "aren't reporting". I've seen a few sites recently where this is happening, including some of ours (ie: so I know how the redirect is set up).

It's largely curiosity really. Although being able to hide a redirect from the search tools would be interesting if there was a way to do it.

The redirects track correctly both for humans via a redirect checker, eg:

httpx://www.testersite.co.uk/
301 Moved Permanently
httpx://www.endsite.co.uk/
200 OK

I've seen it happen when the redirect is through cloudflare and when done using htaccess.

 

[baldidiot]

Figured it - I ran the domain through the ahrefs crawl checker and it had recorded a 403 on the robots.txt of the recipient domain, but with a crawl date from a long time ago. I'm guessing they saw the 403 a few times and then stopped trying to crawl it.

I asked them to recrawl and the status was updated, so interesting to see if they do show up now.