Some missing pages get automatically created - any problem?

[giggle]

Hi

When we create a new supplier on our back office system the appropriate supplier site map page doesn't always get created. The site map page that I wrote automatically generates a link to the new site map page and therefore has a broken link in it.

When I became aware of this problem I changed our 404 page to automatically create the page (using ASP) and then redirect to that page therefore giving the impression that it actually already existed.

Could I be creating a problem? If Google was crawling our site map and came upon a missing page then got redirected to the newly created page would it take offense (or would it even know)?

Hope that made sense!

Mick

[tedster]

If the http header in your server is no longer 404 but 301, you shouldn't have any problem. But if it's 404 and then a redirect, the newly created page will probably not get crawled on that round of spidering.

I assume you've taken care not to create pages for truly "bad" urls.