Google Seeing 301 as 404

[HB17]

Hi all,

We recently migrated a few small sites into one larger site and generally we had no problems.

We read a lot of blogs before hand, 301'd the old links etc and we've been keeping an eye on any 404s.

What we have found is that Webmaster is picking up quite a few 404s, yet when we investigate these 404s they are 301'd and work fine. This isn't for every url, but Google is finding more and I just want to catch any problems before they get out of hand. Is there any reason why Google would count a 301 as a 404?

Thanks!

[DirkC]

Could you check these "problem" url's with a tool like web-sniffer.net of http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/ to be sure that the pages are really returning the correct status. I encountered similar problems with 404 before - while visually the correct page was rendered - the header returned a 404 status. You could also try "Fetch like google" in Webmaster tools.

Would be helpful to have an actual url - if you don't want to disclose the site - you could send it via private message.

rgds,

Dirk

[HB17]

Thanks for your quick answer Dirk.

We'll give that a go on that link and post back the results.

Thanks!

[Christy-Correll]

Hi Harry, what were the results? We'd love an update on this issue! Thanks.

Christy