Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with '301'

Scott Hendison (who I met at a variety of search conferences and will see at Pubcon -- hi!) blogged about MSN ignoring 301 redirects: a site he had that ranked #1 in MSN was completely gone. After investigation, he found...

Posted on December 3, 2007 9:38 AM

301s can effectively be used to inform a search engine that you have moved page a to a new permanent location. While they help make matters easier for webmasters, they are also so very sloooooooooooooow. A WebmasterWorld member wants to...

Posted on November 15, 2007 10:43 AM

Are 301s a bad idea? Why or when should you use them? Does Google penalize you if you get trigger happy and 301 everything in sight? Two WebmasterWorld threads ask the same questions. In the first thread, a forum member...

Posted on November 6, 2007 10:23 AM

A Cre8asite Forums member noticed that his site is reporting 404 errors when in Google Webmaster Tools. What can he do about it? Is it bad from an SEO standpoint? First of all, a bit of troubleshooting is recommended. You...

Posted on October 29, 2007 9:32 AM

What happens if you have two identical sites with thousands of duplicate pages (18,000, to be more exact) indexed on both domains by search engines? Should you combine the pages so that there's no penalty for duplicate content? This is...

Posted on August 8, 2007 9:34 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread discusses the implementation of 301 redirects on a newly constructed site. WebmasterWorld administrator, Tedster, adds to the discussion that he has seen that a chain of 301 redirects does not always pass the link popularity along. For...

Posted on July 9, 2007 7:29 AM

With all the new buzz around Ask.com and their campaigns, TV commercials and new user interface, a WebmasterWorld thread and Search Engine Roundtable Forums thread decided to take a look at a fundamental issue with their indexer. Robert Charlton, WebmasterWorld...

Posted on June 12, 2007 7:51 AM

A Cre8asite Forums thread asks if having too many 301 redirects from OLD site to NEW site can hurt you in the search results. It is a good question, one which administrator Ammon Johns (aka Black_Knight) comes out to answer....

Posted on May 21, 2007 7:11 AM