Comments on: How to Check HTTP Redirects with Microsoft Excel

By: J Mann

J Mann — Sat, 19 May 2012 02:40:12 +0000

Hey Yoav,
Very cool, this redirect-checker. I’m wondering, and I’ll bet a smrt guy like you can easily make it work for A SERIES of URL’s?
So, instead of just entering a url in cell C2, maybe one could enter a series of url’s in a column, (Column C) for example, and the redirect type and new locations show up in different columns, (columns D and E), with each column D and E result in the row specific for the checked url?
I could really, really use something like that and I don’t know how to write scripts.

By: Vikas

Vikas — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:24:47 +0000

Hi Wilson,

Thanks for the link. I downloaded the excel and the macro was working fine…well, until now. Now it says – this version is old and download a new version from tips-for-excel.com. I tried downloading new excel file and the problem is still the same – so it does not work anymore. But, thanks for your help and it seemed really useful.

Cheers,
Vikas

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:19:49 +0000

Hi,

I wondered is there’s way that we can change and amend this spreadsheet to check mulitple entries in column C and then return the redirected URLs in column D?

By: Wilson Moss

Wilson Moss — Thu, 19 May 2011 16:14:20 +0000

@Vikas – I think what you’re looking for is here.

http://www.tips-for-excel.com/tools/url-checking-tool/

@Yoav – nice post, this saved me heaps of time

By: David Reynolds

David Reynolds — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:11:49 +0000

This is fantastic – could this be modified to pick up additional redirects (redirect chains)?

Thanks!
Dave

By: Vikas

Vikas — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:01:47 +0000

Hi,

The Excel tool to check redirects is really cool. Will it be possible for you to update the sheet that allows one to check hundreds of URls, for example (e.g. redirect URLs in one coloumn and other in second column).

I would appreciate it if you could please do that.

Thanks,
Vikas

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:38:24 +0000

Thanks for sharing this Yoav and already we are finding it very useful. We just redesigned (two week ago) and changed our entire format to ‘pretty urls’ the entire site is redirected and is a bit of a challenge to monitor the 301’s. This sheet is helpful.

Nice post and thanks

By: Derrick

Derrick — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:28:51 +0000

is there anyway to modify this spreadsheet to check mulitple entries in column C and then subsequently return the redirected URLs in column D?

By: Jb Diaz

Jb Diaz — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:10:12 +0000

Yes, other than the description, I would also like to retrieve the title and keyword tags for a certain page. Thanks a lot you are awesome!.

By: Yoav Ezer

Yoav Ezer — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:21:04 +0000

In reply to Jb Diaz.

Jb Diaz,
I’m happy to know this tool helped you.
I suppose you are talking about the meta-description tag. Is there any other meta tag you would want to retrieve?