302 troubles. i just CANT find them!

anywhere on my site! buts stats say otherwise.

[kolin]

Apologies if this is in the wrong place, but i'm sure this is affecting my google ranking.

I've got 302s somewhere inside my site. but i just cannot for the life of me find them!
I've used Linksleuth and firefox liveheaders, and they dont show any 302s at all on the site.

is there anything else i can use?

Thanks in advance

Colin.

[edited by: tedster at 5:20 pm (utc) on Dec. 18, 2006]

[tedster]

Do you use a "custom error page"? Sometimes those are incorrectly set up and return a 302 instead of a 404. Since you've already got the liveheaders Firefox extension, just fire it up and put in some bogus URL in the address bar that includes your domain.

[OutdoorMan]

Do you use a Content Management System (CMS) to administrate your website? And do your CMS functions sometimes redirect you to another page by a 302? -- ex. if you alter some content and get redirected to a 'success page'.

I also got a bit confused, and worried, when my stats (aw stats) showed me that I had some 302's -- untill I discovered that the 302's came from my own CMS pages and was generated by me :)

If the 302's isn't generated by users or robots, and if users or robots haven't got any access to your CMS pages, it shouldn't be a problem.

[madmatt69]

Funny - I looked at my logs today and noticed the exact same thing!

Recently I installed wordpress as an addition to my site to help me manage articles. I noticed after installing that wordpress automatically installed a 404 error page (overwriting the one I had).

Maybe that's what's causing my 302's! The funny thing is that I can't figure out where wordpress added their 404 error page - it's not in my htaccess and I don't have a confd file.

I'll dig around a bit more though..I'd love to get rid of those 302's. Perhaps that's contributing to why I took a hit in Google recently.