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More options Sep 16 2007, 9:48 am

From: webado

Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:48:15 -0000

Local: Sun, Sep 16 2007 9:48 am

Subject: Re: Sitemap errors and warnings

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Well it seems to me this has been said so many times it must be
falling on deaf ears.

Run Xenu - if you find even one redirection past the entry point to
the site where you may have one single 302 (that's when the site's
actual homepage and rest of contents are installed in a folder as
happens unfortunately by default with some canned software like CMS, e-
commerce, etc) , then you must fix all your navigation so it will not
require any redirections at all at any point. And all this is in
addition to being fully consistent in your navigation as far as which
canonical domain form you are using.

On Sep 16, 3:02 am, cass-hacks wrote:

> If your sitemap or any navigation links on your site constantly
> require the use of redirects, you will keep getting that error.

> Redirects should not be part of normal navigation as it is a waste of
> resources on both ends, client and server.

> In the past, Google didn't check redirects, now it does.

> So, not data processing problems, maybe website management
> problems? ;-)

> Craig

> On Sep 16, 12:37 am, Chris Gunn wrote:

> > Howdy Folks,

> > Google has found a new way to confuse things and demonstrate their
> > data processing problems. This has been going on for several months
> > now.

> > I'm getting the following error message at erratic times:

> > URLs not followed
> > When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that
> > some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot because they contained too
> > many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect
> > and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target). All
> > valid URLs will still be submitted.

> > It sometimes cites a URL that is not in the site map and the page is a
> > single "Refresh" redirect. All of the others it fusses about are a
> > single ASP redirect.

> > Resubmitting the SiteMap.txt file seems to clear the errors and then
> > within a week they crop up on other sites I monitor.

> > Thanks, Chris- Hide quoted text -

> - Show quoted text -

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