Title: Fetch as Googlebot — 301 error?
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# Fetch as Googlebot — 301 error?
* [jeffcooneyweddings](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffcooneyweddings/)
* (@jeffcooneyweddings)
* [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fetch-as-googlebot-301-error/)
* Here’s what I get when I do the “search as googlebot” feature on Google Webmasters:
* HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:40:35 GMT Server: WebServerX
Location: [http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com/blog/](http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com/blog/)
Content-Length: 327 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-
Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
*
301 Moved
Permanently Moved Permanently
The document
has moved [here](http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com/blog/).
WebServerX Server at [http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com](http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com)
Port 80
* Obviously….. it’s not good for the title of the page to be seen as “301 moved
permanently” and the h1 tag to be “moved permanently” — how can I get these fixed
so Google reads my titles and h1 tags?
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* [crock2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crock2/)
* (@crock2)
* [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fetch-as-googlebot-301-error/#post-2022317)
* Quick question, did you request `jeffcooneyweddings.com/blog/` or `www.jeffcooneyweddings.
com/blog/`
* I’m guessing you asked for jeffcooneyweddings.com/blog/ which would explain the
301 redirect (which is actually what you want to happen and will not show you
header as “moved permanently”.
* If I load you site without the www. I am redirected with a 301 to the page with
the www. That is fine if you want it that way. Some people prefer to redirect
without www or with.
* The key is that one or the other redirects to the other. That way you homepage
can only be found through one address and will not show as duplicate content.
* Sorry if thats confusing :/
* Thread Starter [jeffcooneyweddings](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeffcooneyweddings/)
* (@jeffcooneyweddings)
* [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fetch-as-googlebot-301-error/#post-2022320)
* Yeah that makes total sense — unfortunately though I requested it WITH the www.(
I actually can’t check it without the www… when I go to the googlebot fetch page,
it only allows me to either search [http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com](http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com)
OR [http://www.jeffcooneyweddings/”SOMETHING”](http://www.jeffcooneyweddings/”SOMETHING”);(
such as /blog).
* [crock2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crock2/)
* (@crock2)
* [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fetch-as-googlebot-301-error/#post-2022329)
* The reason you can’t request your site without www is because when you originally
added your site to webmaster tools you added it with the www. I just tested that
theory with a new site I’m working on.
* errr one sec looking into something…
* [crock2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crock2/)
* (@crock2)
* [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fetch-as-googlebot-301-error/#post-2022342)
* Ok, there is no reason Google would see anything differently then what I’m seeing
in my browser unless you have a specific rule in your .htaccess redirecting the
Google bot elsewhere. As long as you haven’t added anything like that we can
assume Google and I are seeing the same results. Even though you are telling
Google to check [http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com/blog/](http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com/blog/)
it may actually be checking [http://jeffcooneyweddings.com/blog/](http://jeffcooneyweddings.com/blog/),
which would explain the redirect.
* What I am seeing is that on your blog pages jeffcooneyweddings.com/blog is redirecting
to [http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com/blogs](http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com/blogs).
That is fine, you only want one version of each page.
* However on your home page and other non WordPress pages I can get [http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com](http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com)
or [http://jeffcooneyweddings.com](http://jeffcooneyweddings.com). That is actually
bad as we only want one version of each page. To Google that looks like duplicate
content. It’s not a huge deal, Google is much better nowadays at handling things
like that, but it’s still best to avoid.
* To fix that you need to add this block of code into a second .htaccess file in
your root directory. You already have one .htaccess in /blog that WordPress created,
you just need one for the other non WP pages.
* ```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^jeffcooneyweddings.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.jeffcooneyweddings.com/$1 [R=301,L]
```
* Basically this will 301 redirect anyone visiting non www pages to www pages outside
of your WP pages.
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