Comments on: Redirections and Search Engines http://www.seobyelan.com/2008/09/redirections-and-search-engines/ Your Daily SEO Dose Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:19:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Gohde http://www.seobyelan.com/2008/09/redirections-and-search-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-174 John Gohde Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:30:44 +0000 http://www.seobyelan.com/?p=53#comment-174 Using a 302 redirect instead of a 301 can cream your site with duplicate content penalization. Using a 302 redirect instead of a 301 can cream your site with duplicate content penalization.

]]> By: elan http://www.seobyelan.com/2008/09/redirections-and-search-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-170 elan Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:28:20 +0000 http://www.seobyelan.com/?p=53#comment-170 @ g1smd, thanks for sharing additional info… @ g1smd, thanks for sharing additional info…

]]> By: g1smd http://www.seobyelan.com/2008/09/redirections-and-search-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-168 g1smd Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:07:00 +0000 http://www.seobyelan.com/?p=53#comment-168 With a 302 redirect, the search engine will usually keep the old URL, but there is a danger that if some other site links to the new (or temporary) URL, that *both* URLs will end up being indexed. There is a difference in handling of redirects between Google, Yahoo and Live, and there are some differences depending on whether the redirect is internal to the domain or is to another separate domain. In the case of a cross-domain 302 redirect, Google prefers to keep the target URL, not the source URL, these days. In the past, they did the opposite and that caused a *lot* of problems. With a 302 redirect, the search engine will usually keep the old URL, but there is a danger that if some other site links to the new (or temporary) URL, that *both* URLs will end up being indexed.

There is a difference in handling of redirects between Google, Yahoo and Live, and there are some differences depending on whether the redirect is internal to the domain or is to another separate domain.

In the case of a cross-domain 302 redirect, Google prefers to keep the target URL, not the source URL, these days. In the past, they did the opposite and that caused a *lot* of problems.

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