302 and Googlebot

[FrenchGuy]

Googlebot is very active at the moment. The problem is that without apparent reason, the server renders "302" for some pages. These pages are still physically here.

Question 1: how will Google react to this?
Question 2: what can be the reason for this 302s? (MS IIS 5)

[korkus2000]

Are you using any response.redirects in your code at all? Do you have parts of your site that need cookies enabled to work?

googlebot will just go to the new page.

[jdMorgan]

Frenchguy,

This could also be Googlebot following "incorrect domain" links into your site. Let's say that the primary domain name that you promote is www.frenchguy.com. If another webmaster links to a page on your site at frenchguy.com/lyon.html, then you may see a normal-looking request for /lyon.html in your logs get 302-redirected because the domain name is not the primary domain - The page is OK, but the domain name is not the primary one.

This could be something you have set up, or a default configuration of your server. Try some testing to see if this is the case, or if there is any pattern to the redirected requests - is the page name, referrer, HTTP version, remote IP address, or remote host always the same?

Jim