Crawl findings 301 redirects I didn't make?

[TrentDrake]

Hi,

I'm new to SEOMOZ Pro and loving it so far, but was confused as to how the 51 page Crawl of my site (http://cryptophoneaustralia.com) found so many 301 redirects. 18 to be exact.

It's a Wordpress site, and my htaccess file has no 301's in it, so I'm kind of confused as to where to start looking as to why they've shown up in the crawl.

I've been building sites for years, and use 301's quite regularly, but this site should have none.

The site was originally on a subdomain until it was ready to go live, then I moved the site to it's current domain and ran the Velvet Blues plugin to update all the URLs. I then went through and manually changed the ones in areas where this plugin tends to miss.

The site still functions fine, it just bothers me why the 301's are being found in the crawl.

Thank you.

[Branagan]

WordPress creates internal redirects sometimes (if your server configuration allows it), for example if you change your permalink structure or a post URL (slug), the old address will redirect to the new one. Maybe that is what you are seeing?

You can check all your internal WP rewrite rules with this tool: http://www.askapache.com/wordpress/rewriterule-viewer-plugin.html

[TrentDrake]

Thank you,

That's probably what's happening. I thought changing the slug etc would just cause the database to be updated.

All good. Thank again.