Google Seeing 301 as 404
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Hi all,
We recently migrated a few small sites into one larger site and generally we had no problems.
We read a lot of blogs before hand, 301'd the old links etc and we've been keeping an eye on any 404s.
What we have found is that Webmaster is picking up quite a few 404s, yet when we investigate these 404s they are 301'd and work fine. This isn't for every url, but Google is finding more and I just want to catch any problems before they get out of hand. Is there any reason why Google would count a 301 as a 404?
Thanks!
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Hi Harry, what were the results? We'd love an update on this issue! Thanks.
Christy
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Thanks for your quick answer Dirk.
We'll give that a go on that link and post back the results.
Thanks!
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Could you check these "problem" url's with a tool like web-sniffer.net of http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/ to be sure that the pages are really returning the correct status. I encountered similar problems with 404 before - while visually the correct page was rendered - the header returned a 404 status. You could also try "Fetch like google" in Webmaster tools.
Would be helpful to have an actual url - if you don't want to disclose the site - you could send it via private message.
rgds,
Dirk
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