Crawlers reporting upper case letter url versions although these have been 301'd to lower case !?
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Hi
I have a client e-com site who's dev platform is on a windows server
Their product pages have been auto-named after the product title, with the first letter in each word being upper case, which has hence translated to the URL having upper cases instances too.
I asked them to set up 301 redirects for all url's that had upper case instances to lower case versions, which they say they have done.
However I'm still seeing url's with upper case instances showing up in webmaster tools and moz crawl reports but when I copy & paste them into a browser they do redirect to, & resolve in, the lower case version. Its also upper case versions reported in the Google cache!
So how come webmaster tools & Moz etc are reporting the upper case versions, surely if redirected it should be the lower case versions
All Best
Dan
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cheers i think it has
thanks again for your help pointing me in right direction
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Awesome, I hope it fixes your problem.
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Have worked out how to check in sitemaps and can see that there are upper case urls being referenced so have instructed dev to force lower case and update sitemap to dynamic
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A few months ago
Good point I'll ask , should that be a quick task for a dev to carry out ?
Also is it something i can verify myself ? (i have looked in GWT but cant see any urls listed only the sitmap itself)
Cheers Hutch
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How long ago did they make the updates? Did you also update your sitemap to no longer have uppercase versions in it?
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