301 redirect question from a newb
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So, I've been blogging for almost 3 years now. I've always used wordpress, but recently changed from a ProPhoto theme to a Woo Theme (Editorial...don't know if that matters).
I've signed up for the SEOmoz website and HOLY CROW I have problems with my website out the wazoo.
I am tackling issues one at a time and one of my issues seems to be 301 redirects. If you'd like to see a screen shot of the crawl diagnostics, check it out the attachment. If you'd like screen shots of anything else, just let me know.
I'm not sure I'm reading the chart right, but it seems to say that all of my redirecting problems are because my links are redirecting from an http://www..... to a http://http://www...
I've been in my wordpress blog post back end and can't seem to figure out how they A. Got like this. and B how to fix it.
If I'm reading the chart wrong...definitely let me know.
Thank you guys so much in advance!
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Thank you so much, Alan. I'll go in and see if I can pinpoint the cause in my plugins.
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Awesome!! I'll go in and see if that might be a problem.
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I had that happen to my website and it was the "Redirection plugin" that I had to remove.
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Seen a few WordPress sites do this, usually it is a plug in that is causing the problem
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