Hi guys I have an old site with about 200 pages. I've actually deleted the whole site and am currently redoing the whole thing cause it was so messed up. Google's now picked up a lot of 404 (not found) pages and I redirected them all to the main page. There is also a warning message: URLs not followed When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot because they contained too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target). All valid URLs will still be submitted. initially there were redirected pages that didn't even exist. long story shot I had something like: page A --> page B --> page C Completely messed up so now its page A --> page C Only problem is I havent uploaded all the corresponding new pages yet. How should I fix this? advice? is it not allowed to have too many pages redirect to the main page? Thanks guys
Never redirect to the main page. A 301 is telling the bot you have simply move the content to the redirect page - so by redirecting to the main page you are basically telling lies. OK it not an ethical problem but it could cause the bots some confusion. I'd get the new pages up and setup the redirects to show it. Do it one page at a time if you have to.
I have some problem for 404 redirection. What is the simplest way of redirecting the webpage except using htaccess method. Its really urgent for me to know this Can U help me out......... Please i want some quick advice.