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Sitemap URLs not followed - Webmaster Tools says "too many redirects"

         

Marfola

1:15 pm on Feb 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I woke up to the following warning in Google Webmaster Tool this morning:
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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. [?]

I checked my google Sitemap none of the URLs cited by Google are listed and none of the URLs in my sitemap redirect, all are destination URLs. What’s more, I have checked my 301 redirects in Websniffer and all are functioning properly. There are no multiple redirects.

A bit of history.
The 301 redirects in place were written in May 2007 and have not been touched since. Two months ago, I implemented javascript functionality in some sections of the website and am managing the history via ajax in this section with a #.

Could this be my problem? The reason I ask is that the page refreshes when ajax adds the #.

jomaxx

5:03 pm on Feb 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

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none of the URLs cited by Google...

Regardless of whether they're in your site map or not, if Google cited specific URLs then that's where I'd personally start looking.

The Javascript angle sounds promising, depending on what Googlebot actually sees when it requests a given page.

bwnbwn

9:57 pm on Feb 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Two months ago, nope that doesn't sound like the issue if it was it would have happened sooner.

Sounds to me the dns changed we had the same issue on a couple sites our IT department forgot to update some expiring domains and for a couple days were back at the register.

Google put the same error message in 3 of the seven so sounds to me you need to look elsewere.

I resubmitted them and all are fine now try that.

I have requested to be over the domians now jeeze...

acemi

10:49 am on Feb 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I recently had this message too. I used Firefox Live httpheaders extension to check and found that I had left the trailing slash off a few urls (domain.com/test instead of domain.com/test/)

I added in the slash and Goog accepted the updated urls.