Have a Blogger Blog and Keep Getting the Failed: Redirect Error from Google Search Console? Worry no more - read this!
You're encountering a common and mostly harmless issue with Blogger blogs and Google Search Console. Here's a breakdown of what's happening and what you can do: What’s Causing the “Failed: Redirect Error”? Blogger automatically redirects mobile users (including Googlebot Smartphone) to a mobile version of your blog post using a 302 Temporary Redirect to a URL ending in ?m=1 . This is normal behavior for Blogger and not a bug . Google Search Console flags this as a “Redirect error” , but in most cases, there’s nothing to fix Why It Happens Googlebot now crawls most sites as a mobile user . When it tries to access your blog post (e.g., yourblog.blogspot.com/post-title ), it gets redirected to yourblog.blogspot.com/post-title?m=1 . Since this is a 302 redirect , Google treats it as temporary and may delay indexing the original URL. What You Should Do Check for Canonical Tags Make sure your Blogger theme includes the canonical tag: ...