We have recently moved our site to a new platform with a different structure. We placed the correct 301 redirects from old pages, but also, some pages include 302 redirects for language-specific content.
For example, if someone goes to site.com/de/library/slug-url
they will be redirected with a 302 to site.com/de/bibliotek/slug-url
.
For some reason on our latest webmaster tools HTML Suggestions report, we noticed many pages reported as Pages with duplicate meta descriptions
. The report includes both versions: The real page and the page that generates the 302. In some cases a third version of the page appears, e.g. site.com/library/slug-url
(which also generates a 302 to site.com/de/library/slug-url
)
Shouldn't google detect the redirect correctly? Why does it report on duplicate meta descriptions?
rel="canonical"
and 301s instead of 302s, but still get reports of duplicates. It really does seem to be a flaw/waiting game. – David Millar Jul 5 '13 at 17:03