Error Message From Google - 302s

[DansSitesRScrewed]

Got an error message from google and trying to figure out what is going on.

Under Crawl Errors, for Not Followed it is showing a bunch of 302s, when you click on one of the 302 links it shows a popup window that stats, 'Google couldn't follow your URL because it redirected too many times.'

It states that the link is found in our sitemaps and a linked from pages. One of the urls in the linked from is showing the URL that is in question.

Also, for some reason it is showing a 302, when these links are actually 301s. We moved our site recently.

Any way to troubleshoot this?

[DansSitesRScrewed]

What makes this even stranger is that when I do a Fetch as Google, it is showing as HTTP/1.1 200 OK

[netmeg]

Install the Live HTTP Headers extension into Firefox and check those redirects.

[bumpski]

Google has made this almost impossible now, but here's a tip anyway.
Many times in the past, with webmaster tools, the link that is shown on the page, is not actually the link that is in the source code for the webmaster tools page. The link on a given webmasters tools page may look good to you, but the link that is actually produced by the source when you click on it is different.
Using Live Http Headers is an excellent suggestion to see what the webmaster tool page source is producing when you click on a link.
I've wasted quite a bit of time being fooled by webmaster tools. (Hey that rhymes)

[DansSitesRScrewed]

Hi netmeg, I installed the Live HTTP Headers ext and noticed something strange. It seems as if it is seeing our live chat js requests, but no the main Header? I'm not sure what is going on here.

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[edited by: aakk9999 at 8:58 pm (utc) on Jan 9, 2014]
[edit reason] Sorry, no URLs, not even with URL shortener [/edit]

[DansSitesRScrewed]

bumpski glad to see you have some rapping skills as well! I just ran the report, hopefully someone can tell me what's up. I'm new to a lot of this, so please keep that in mind.

[aakk9999]

We moved our site recently.

How recent is "recently"? When you move the site, it can take quite some time for Google to sort things out.

[DansSitesRScrewed]

We moved it around 8 months ago. I am concerned because we are moving another site to this server as well. They both will be using varnish cache on the front end and I am a little worried that it is the varnish that is causing some of these strange results. We have it on our other site that you have been looking at in the site reviews. The one with the 302s, etc.

[aakk9999]

When you said you moved your site recently, what do you mean by this? Have you changed hosting, or only changes server, or have you changed domain name, or you redesigned the site or something else?

[DansSitesRScrewed]

All of the above, except for changing the domain name. Although there are some 301 redirects of category pages.