Hello,
Can someone tell me if there is an easy fix for the warning example below on my submitted google sitemaps? It looks like this is happening on the same page with several different URL's. Would it be a problem to just leave my sitemaps submitted with the warnings?


Projector Discount Store

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.
HTTP Error:
URL:
Found:302 (Moved temporarily)

http://www.projectordiscountstore.com/...;zenid=987af36ae7367c713d6f52ebaa68f4b5
Feb 25, 2008

well as it says "All valid URLs will still be submitted" so you can leave it as it is although you should investigate your 302 redirect issue as using 302 redirects is considered as "black hat" (not good) by google.

Note:
301 Redirect (Moved permanantly) is fine. Google will just follow and cache the 301 redirect URL and ignore (remove from cache) the old URL completely.

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Thank you,

I have submitted an update request to my website hosting company who setup the zen cart. Hopefully they can change the redirects on that page to a 301.

Well this page is the same as the one in your quote above. Why do you want duplicate content in your sitemap?

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In the tools area on my webmaster account there is an option to exclude URL's. Would this corrrect the problem?

The Exclude URL option is, in general, something that should only be used as a last resort. It is somewhat error prone, and some webmasters have had their entire sites deindexed. In this case, I think the issue is the zenid, which I believe is related to an analytics solution. These user IDs can present a security issue, and can also cause duplicate content issues with the search engines.

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In my experience, it's best to fix the problem that's resulting in the errors. If Google keeps spidering your site and keeps finding the same errors on the same pages, it won't take long for it to have a significant impact on your placement in the SERPs.

If they can't spider your content, it's not going to be indexed... it's exactly what you don't want.

As Wige said, Exclude URL is a last resort. Depending on the error, it might still not work if the problem isn't fixed and the spider is still able to hit the page.

Figure it out and get it resolved "tut-sweet".

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Thank you,

I actually just got off the phone with one of the web designers who installed my zen cart. I sent her a sample of the URL's that are redirecting. I followed one of the URL's this morning and after being on the page for about 30-seconds the page redirected by itself to my google shopping cart checkout page. I hope they can figure out the problem.