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Done 17 October 2026

A lowercase redirect breaks indexing of URLs with non-ASCII characters: a Googlebot test

The common SEO advice “redirect all URLs to lowercase” also lowercases the hex digits of percent-encoding in URLs with non-ASCII characters. Googlebot then loops and never reaches the page, while a browser opens it without trouble.

#url#cyrillic#lowercase

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