Thank you Ethan, Yes I will recommend a 301 redirect to the I.T. guys, but I do think that my I.T. guys wont like me much

Please can I ask - why would I need to create more content to canonicalise it if I already have two url's? Would I not just add code to both pages?

If the page 1 url exists and temp redirects it to the page 2 url, would I not just add code to both pages? Or if I add code to the page 1 url, would it be exactly the same to the other variations?

Please teach me this as I will need to explain it to the I.T. dept as this was there recommendations. I think I will most definitely need tech help moving forward!

Thanks a lot for your time!

Thanks Patrick,

This is indeed helpful. I have read these links; SO:

• Redirects should be 301.

• I need to add href lang tags (for google and bing) on my website and I need to look more into geo targeting in more detail.

- Do you recommend I need to find out why these urls are being created? and yes this has also crossed over with the duplicate content project we are running too. But 301's are a solution until I figure out why these url's are being created so we can get it fixed.

I will check the sitemap today.

Thanks for your advice

Hey Guys,

I am fairly new to 'technical' SEO as I was lucky enough in my old role to have technical expertise in the team for things like this, now I am learning myself and it is a slow and painful process, so your expertise is soooo much appreciated! My I.T. dept say that I have 3 instances on my website where the Hybris platform is creating a 302 redirect automatically - the first:

1. URL doesn't exist - Hybris creates a temp 302 - the system does not create case sensitive url's

| http://www.example.fr/Example/Marques/0180/brand/CHANEL | URL doesn't exist | TRUE | 302 |

| http://www.example.fr/Example/Marques/0015/brand/Giorgio-Armani | URL doesn't exist | TRUE | 302 |
| http://www.example.fr/fr/Example/marken/0507/brand/lancome | URL doesn't exist | TRUE | 302 |

I believe these are being redirected due to the fact that capital letters are being created in the url.

2. Multi-lingual redirects

I have a German and French version of my site and whenever any switches from one URL to the other using our language selector a 302 is created.

3. Dynamic URL elements

Dynamic url elements and special characters are being created in the URL, I am not sure where this is happening, but my I.T. department would like me to go and see whether this is something that can be created by a browser.

If anyone has any similar problems or have any advice or insights even, I would love to hear from you! Thanks

Hi,

I am hoping someone could help explain - I have a screaming frog account and ran a crawl using it, it returned a lot of 0 status codes 'connection timeout', 'DNS lookup failed' and 'Connection Refused'. However, the SEO MOZ Crawl doesn't detect any of this.

I am fairly new to these tools, do you know why this is?

Thanks a lot!