Does a Double Redirect Stop Google?

Content Management Software messing up the crawl

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In my daytime company we are running a content management tool (made for us years ago) that messes up active and archived docs.

My guess is now: when GBot runs into a double re-direct (the tool writes it this way) after version changes it considers the link bad or even cloaked?

What to do?

Thanks, Jens

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Anyone?

[caveman]

Well I fear this won't be of much help but: We are aware of a competitor that uses double redirects and often G indexes the original URL with the content from the final landing page and it works fine for them. I've read in here before that redirects do produce quite varying results, and FWIW, I have a feeling that *if* there's a filter associated with this sort of activity, it has been tightened recently.

However, a separate question: Since content mgmt software is involved here, is it possible that the URL strings are the problem, not the redirects? (i.e., to many = and? signs, etc.). That would stop Gbot cold.

[seomike2003]

Explain the redirect better. What type of prgramming is being used.

does it go from landing page to counter page to main page? etc...