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    • kellymandingo
      kellymandingo last edited by

      HI

      SEOmoz has finished crawling the site and surprised me with nearly 4k of 301's

      all the 301 are on my deal pages

      Example of the 301

      http://www.economy-car-leasing.co.uk/van-leasing-deals/ford/transit-lease/transit-lwb-el-minibus-diesel-rwd-high-roof-17-seater-tdci-135ps%3D586165

      as you can see from the above URL it returns a 404 but the URL is actually sent as below

      http://www.economy-car-leasing.co.uk/van-leasing-deals/ford/transit-lease/transit-lwb-el-minibus-diesel-rwd-high-roof-17-seater-tdci-135ps=586165

      For some reason SEOmoz crawler is converting the = to %3d and reporting its a 301 even though it returns 404

      Is this an error on SEOMOZ part ? or is there an error on my site

      Googlebot when i do a fetch as Google bot returns all on with the = sign and every other tool i have tried is ok too

      so not sure why SEOMOZ is seeing it different and then adding the URL as a 301

      I am hoping this is just a glitch on the report tool part as im struggling since a recent site 301

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      • kellymandingo
        kellymandingo last edited by

        Kind of answered my own question to a point

        The encoding of a = sign converts to %3D (no idea why SEOMOZ is picking this up on its crawl, the 301 is being done by my htaccess because its an upper case D the 301 it 301's  the upper case to lower case then to a 404 page which is not good, i have fixed this but still wonder why SEOMOZ is seeing the %3D instead of an = sign

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