Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'redirects'

Tedster, WebmasterWorld's Administrator, posted an excellent thread at WebmasterWorld asking how do you think Google handles the canonical issues they find on their own? By that he means, if webmasters don't use a 301 redirect or use Google's canonical header...

Posted on November 10, 2009 8:13 AM

One thing I always see in the search optimization forums are complaints about how Microsoft Bing handles 301 redirects. I actually stopped covering the complaints because I saw them all too often. Today, I have some possible good news. Steve,...

Posted on October 30, 2009 9:09 AM

Yesterday, I reported at Search Engine Land that Google is going to allow cross domain canonical tag. This means, if you have two sites (probably verified under the same webmaster tools account), you will be able to tell Google, all...

Posted on October 6, 2009 7:54 AM

A thread at WebmasterWorld has a webmaster who is getting a bit nervous that the 301 redirects he set up for a site won't be the best bet in the long run for his end goals. In summary, his original...

Posted on August 26, 2009 9:10 AM

In August 2005, Matt Cutts, the head of search quality at Google, launched his blog at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/. Notice, if you click on that URL, you are redirected to http://www.dullest.com/blog/. Why? Well, Matt explained that he was to switch things around,...

Posted on May 8, 2009 8:32 AM

An interesting WebmasterWorld thread discusses the phenomenon of redesigning a site, with brand new URL structure, 301 redirecting the old URLs to the new, and seeing an almost immediate boost in rankings at Google.com. In fact, WebmasterWorld moderator, minnapple, has...

Posted on January 8, 2009 8:45 AM

You don't hear the word "penalty" come up much when you are talking about Google's AdWords program. I hear it all the time with Google's web search algorithm, but rarely when it comes to Google's AdWords quality score algorithm. In...

Posted on January 6, 2009 8:14 AM

A Google Webmaster Help thread has discussion around a webmaster who noticed Google is treating his mobile site as a duplicate site to his main site. This user has his mobile site on a subdomain of m.domain.com, where his main...

Posted on December 30, 2008 8:38 AM

Over the course of the past few months, I have hearing buzz from the forums and from people in the SEO industry that Google is dropping pages out of their index. How do these people know? Well, when they do...

Posted on November 17, 2008 7:58 AM

A Google Groups thread has discussion from SEOs and a Googler on the topic of removing the default.asp from your web site, through a redirect method on an IIS server. What is the typical issue with IIS servers and redirecting?...

Posted on October 28, 2008 8:16 AM

The Google blog has officially said that they prefer that in most cases, you should not use rewrites to change your dynamic URLs to static looking URLs. In my opinion, this is a major 180° on basic SEO practices. SEO...

Posted on September 23, 2008 9:27 AM

In one of the detailed Google Popular Picks thread, Googlers discuss the issue of redirects. In March, the Google Webmaster Central team talked about moving your site from one location to another. In this post, however, JohnMu gives more insight...

Posted on September 9, 2008 9:56 AM

A common issue for e-commerce sites is what to do when an item goes out of stock. Do you delete the page? Do you redirect the page somewhere else? Do you just tell the user the item is out of...

Posted on September 5, 2008 7:38 AM

There is a very large discussion at Sphinn around a Search Engine Journal post named How to Get Rid of Multiple Subpages & Not Get Penalized. The discussion is around the topics of using different techniques when removing or redirecting...

Posted on August 14, 2008 8:08 AM

In a WebmasterWorld thread, the effects of 301 redirects are discussed. Can you be penalized? Apparently, the answer is yes. Tedster notes that a number of webmasters, when they discovered the potential of 301 redirects, "started throwing [them] around like...

Posted on August 5, 2008 9:59 AM

Moving document and file locations on the web is fairly common. So what do you do when you have to communicate the move to your users and the search engines? You set up a redirect. There is no question that...

Posted on March 3, 2008 7:31 AM

We have been reporting about Microsoft's issues with handling 301 permanent redirects since September 2006. We came back to the issue this past December but still, Webmasters are complaining at the lack of support for 301 redirects in Microsoft's Live...

Posted on January 17, 2008 7:31 AM

A HighRankings Forums thread has one member reporting the "diary" of a 302 redirect. Here is the timeline so far: 12/19/07: 302 Re-direct implemented from www.oldsite.com to www.newsite.com 12/20/07: New site name (not url - so BRAND NAME rather than...

Posted on December 24, 2007 7:33 AM

Permanent redirects, also known as 301 redirects, are the life blood for webmasters when they make changes to their URL structures. It is common practice and knowledge, that when you change a URL from one location to a new location,...

Posted on December 18, 2007 7:38 AM

Brian Turner is reporting at a Platinax Forum that Yahoo has changed the way they handle 301 redirects. In the past, according to Yahoo! Redirect Handling Rules (PDF File), a 301 from Site A to Site B, Yahoo would keep...

Posted on November 15, 2007 7:36 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

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

Matt McGee recently posted on Cre8asite Forums asking how long a 302 redirect should stay in place -- because if it's there for too long, he is afraid that search engines will see the redirect as a permanent 301 redirect....

Posted on June 29, 2007 10:30 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

You follow all the rules, you test all the scenarios, you make your version two site 100% search engine friendly. Then you launch the site and bam, your search referrals drop 60%. How could this of happened? That is the...

Posted on May 14, 2007 7:03 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports that MSN Search (aka Live.com) is indexing permanent 301 redirects. What this means is that if you search on a term or command that triggers the domain that is 301ed to show up, it will...

Posted on September 29, 2006 7:15 AM