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Thanks very much for your help!
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Perhaps you could submit (or resubmit) a XML sitemap, alternatively use the "fetch as Googlebot" for the "old" URL. That way, Googlebot should see the redirect.
Good luck.
Anders
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The Google bot did visit the page and i don't think this is a new rule, it has been done before. How can I get Google Bot to crawl my pages?
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Hi Oscar.
Is the redirect rule somewhat new? Perhaps the /Product.asp?PID=1236 was indexed before and GoogleBot has not yet made another visit to this page?
Anders
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Hi Anders,
I checked and there are redirects on those pages but why in GWT appears as duplicate title tag and description?
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Thanks for your help!
I am going to look into it but I have so many like it within GWT.
I will talk to the developer and see what he says.
Cheers
Oscar
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It appear to do a redirect to a URL within the product-folder, add the product name as a subfolder, and add the SKU# as the last part of the URL.
The two URLs should not cause any duplicate issues, as the http://www.repsole.com/Product.asp?PID=1236 does a proper 301 Redirect to the user friendly URL..
Best regards,
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It does redirect to a user friendly url but I have no idea what that url represents. Also it causes duplicate issues with the site.
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Hi!
The URL Product.asp?PID=1236 redirects to a more semantic("user friendly") URL. Or did you perhaps think of something else?
Hope this helps
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