: Wrong duplicate meta descriptions on webmaster tools 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,

@Samaraweera270

Change the 302 to a 301, my guess is the temporary redirect is confusing Google and causing it to keep both page's data.

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@Shelley277

I don't know why the redirects aren't being detected correctly if you are certain that they were implemented correctly, but in general I have seen Webmaster Tools take awhile to drop old URLs off of various reports, so I would wait a bit to see if the problem goes away. Check the cache dates in Google search results for some of those pages; it's possible that Google hasn't crawled the page since the update, and even when Google has crawled the new page, I've still seen old URLs existing in Webmaster Tools and even in search results for a few weeks or even months.

In the meantime I would specify canonical URLs for all of your new real pages if you haven't already, so that whether crawlers begin with site.com/de/library/slug-url or site.com/de/bibliotek/slug-url they will see a canonical URL of:

site.com/de/bibliotek/slug-url


That should reduce any mistaken interpretations about duplicate content in the meantime and in the future, and may help the duplicate warnings in Webmaster Tools go away faster.

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