: Fetch as Google Bot not working for `www.` version of site but is for `non-www.` version - Webmaster Tools Ive recently acquired a new domain that i want to point at our existing domain, ive

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Ive recently acquired a new domain that i want to point at our existing domain, ive setup hosting for the new domain and then done a 301 redirect in the .htaccess file of the new domain to my existing domain.

I then wanted to tell google about this new site 301 redirecting to ourselves, so i set the site up in Google Webmaster Tools, I then added the site as the www version and non-www version. To make Google recognize the redirecting i fetched as google bot.

For the non-www site it fetched fine, it noticed the 301 redirect and then allowed me to submit to index.

For the www site it keeps giving me a "Temporarily unreachable" message for the status of the crawl (see below screenshot) - any ideas why this might be ?
Ive only recently moved the domain so i thought it might be a propagation issue, but its strange that the non-www version worked which leaves me to believe otherwise.



(The www version of the site is set as the preferred version in webmaster tools)

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