301 redirects don't work properly

[Kapottefietsband]

Hello all,

I've been working on 301 redirects for a bit and normally it's no problem but some seem to be going wrong.

Redirect 301 /3-zits.html http://www.bankstellenshop.com/banken/3-zits.html

This one works properly but the following one gives a very strange result as it goes to http://www.bankstellenshop.com/bankstellen.html/u (no idea where the .html comes from)

Redirect 301 /bankstellen/u http://www.bankstellenshop.com/bankstellen/u.html

Any idea what I'm doing wrong or what should change?

Thanks in advance!

[ThompsonPaul]

I'm assuming you've been working on this, Frans? The redirect for http://www.bankstellenshop.com//bankstellen/u ends up on page http://www.bankstellenshop.com/bankstellen/goedkope/u.html. Is that the behaviour you want?

Note that the above is actually a chain of 301 redirects. It goes
http://www.bankstellenshop.com//bankstellen/u 301 redirects to
http://www.bankstellenshop.com/bankstellen/u.html which 301 redirects to
http://www.bankstellenshop.com/bankstellen/goedkope/u.html

It would be cleaner, more efficient and preserve rank influence better if the middle redirect was removed and the initial URL redirected to the final in one hop. (Some "rank juice" is lost with each redirect in a chain.)

Hope that helps?

Paul

[Kapottefietsband]

Been indeed working on this almost all day hehe.

I found that I set a redirect for /bankstellen to /bankstellen.html which caused all the links to become /bankstellen.html/u or whatever it should be.

What I did not find is what you just mentioned here above. Thanks for the answer, will for sure look into this!