diff --git a/contrib/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/AMQPUrlReceiver.java b/contrib/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/AMQPUrlReceiver.java
index 3afd7a35..6cf96791 100644
--- a/contrib/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/AMQPUrlReceiver.java
+++ b/contrib/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/AMQPUrlReceiver.java
@@ -446,7 +446,13 @@ public class AMQPUrlReceiver
                 curi.setSchedulingDirective(SchedulingConstants.HIGH);
                 curi.setPrecedence(1);
             } else {
-                curi.setSchedulingDirective(SchedulingConstants.NORMAL);
+                /*
+                 * By default, redirects get set to MEDIUM, so to ensure the
+                 * incoming links are caught promptly, even if the crawler hits
+                 * a lot of redirects (which we have observed for e.g. The
+                 * Guardian), we bump them to MEDIUM so these links can compete.
+                 */
+                curi.setSchedulingDirective(SchedulingConstants.MEDIUM);
                 curi.setPrecedence(1);
             }