Way too many 301 redirects

[kellymandingo]

Hi Guys

Posting here again in regard to 301 redirects, SEOMOZ has just finished my second crawl, and its showing me nearly 4k 301 redirects, i am only tracking my new site which by the way changed domain name , however all im doing is tracking the new domain and there are no 301 implemented on that side (Except Canonical), so was wondering how SEOMoz is finding 4k of redirects.

do you think it could be chaining somewhere ? as all the tests look good or could there be a problem with the reporting

[DougRoberts]

It's hard to say without knowing the detail. Which site/pages?

You say that you've moved the site to a new domain name - is it possible that you've got some links in there somewhere that are still pointing to the old domain and being redirected back?

Have you tried spidering your own site with something like Screaming Frog or taking a look at your server logs for the redirects or referrals from your old domain?

Guessing a bit here. Can you give any more details?

[kellymandingo]

HI Doug

Posted twice on this subject and the other 2 are here http://www.seomoz.org/q/301-redirect-how-long-until-the-juice-passes-through-to-new-site

I have checked server logs and response headers and everything looks absolutely correct, not used screaming frog but have used Xeno

I have been complaining for now 10 weeks that i have no traffic since i did the 301, and as i said im only reporting on the new site now which n theory should be 301 clean, except the canonical element part

I am now convinced there is a issue as otherwise the crawl from SEOmoz would not pick up those redirects,