LunaC - 5:28 pm on Apr 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

I think MSN is very much having troubles with 301's.

My site was ranking great until I added 301's to try to help Google sort out their mess (Cannonical probs and old 302 hijack issues). Now in MSN for example.com/ no results are found, take of the slash and its always 1 page... that page changes but its always a page that should be redirected.

ie. oldpage.html 301 -> newpage.php

oldpage.html will be the only page listed from my site. The cache shows:

Moved Permanently
The document has moved here.

Apache/1.3.33 Server at example.com Port 80

I've tested the redirect in quite a few ways, everything looks fine. These redirects have been in place for around 6 months, msnbot is still spidering as frantic as usual and looks like it goes through the 301 just fine.

I tested at one point using robots.txt to block oldpage1.html, the only difference was that MSN quickly changed what page is coming up for example.com

Google is still having a ton of issues so I'm afraid to remove the 301's in case they will help G. eventually.

Anyone else see anything like this?