I logged into Google webmaster tools today and saw there were two errors in my sitemap (that were never there before). It said "Redirect error" on two links that work fine (no redirect). Then I noticed in the sitemap they are listed like this: http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools http://www.searchbliss.com/forum both having default pages, and when I follow the links the browser ads the ending "/" like this: http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/ http://www.searchbliss.com/forum/ Is this what Google considers a "redirect" and is it the browser doing this or my server??? So I changed the links adding the forward slash and resubmitted my site map moments ago to see what happens. Has anyone else had this problem?
Well after resubmitting, now there are no errors since I added the forward slash to the links...by why a redirect error I'll never know.
Actually, servers automatically redirect a page that says "example.com/directory" to "example.com/directory/" because a directory is supposed to have a slash. On facebook, they probably used something similar to mod_rewrite to do "facebook.com/page". This is actually not an error because directorys must end with a slash.
Well it's true, we do learn something every day...and today was mine. Thanks, but why does Google webmaster tools now consider this an error when it did not in the past? Well I guess it doesn't matter and has to do with the changes. Anyway, thanks again.