301 Redirect Causes Duplicate Title Tags in Webmaster Tools

[roodle]

Hi,

About 2 weeks ago I changed the name and directory location of a page and updated the site with a 301 redirect for the old page to the new. My webmaster tools now say I have a few hundred duplicate title tags for the old and new versions. Is this just temporary or should I be worried?

Thanks in advance.

[tedster]

Temporary - as long as your server is returning a true 301 status in the http header, the old URLs will eventually drop out. Nothing to worry about.

[roodle]

I'm running the 301 via some vbscript - Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently" etc. It certainly works for the browser so I presume it works for Googlebot too.

[tedster]

Your browser will not show any difference between a 301 [Permanent] and 302 [Temporary] redirect. So you need to check the actual headers your sever is sending.

You can use, for instance, the Firefox add-on LiveHTTPHeaders. There are various online tools that will also allow you to check the server headers.