GWT Change of Address not working
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I work at a .jsp site where we have vanity urls that 301 to the www,domainname.com/index.jsp?c_id. Now when I do a change of address in GWT it tells me that it can't fulfill the change of address cause the redirect goes to www.domainname.com/index.jsp instead of www.domainname.com. I could create a GWT account for www.domainname.com/index.jsp/ but that is a 404 (it needs the c_id). How would I do my change of address?
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I think this is true, and it is probably not a good idea to create a WMTs account to anything other than the main domain.
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From my experience, the change of address functionality had little effect during migrations. I would not worry about it too much, as long as you have properly working 301s.
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Hi Matt,
Can you not remove the redirect temporarily while you sort the change of address over?
-Andy
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