Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'redirects'

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