Redirect query

[woody2004]

Hi

I have set up some (IIS) 301 redirects. When I check my listings using Yahoo search, the new page that the redirect points to shows but the url displayed in the listing is still the url from the old site.

Is this normal and will it change to show the new url or have I missed something.

Regards
Woody

[finer9]

This is happening to me to.

Yahoo is not following/updating 301 redirects properly.

My 301 redirect has been in place for a year or more and the URL listed in search is still the old one.

[bull]

This is annoying. I went yesterday to showing Slurp a 404, but giving visitors a 301 until the old filenames have disappeared (I can do this, they are all sub-pages with no external links)

[mthorpe]

what is a 301 re-diect? the only way i know how to re-direct is a meta http-equiv tag.

[EarWig]

Yahoo admitted in March this year that they are having problems with 301 redirects.
They are "apparently" treating the problem as a "priority" so expect something to be done sometime in 2004 or maybe.............
EW

[travelin cat]

Yesterday at the Search Engine Stratagies conference in San Jose, I pointed this out to a Yahoo employee and he said that it is because we are not using a 301 redirect (I know we are).

All of our (whatever is left) results are pointing to the redirected pages and not the real pages. This is not so bad except for the fact that all of our Asense ads show generic ads when the url call is not correct.

Not sure how much $ losing because of this....

[DaveAtIFG]

Welcome mthorpe. We're not ignoring you, exactly... But your question is somewhat off topic.

Let me suggest some reading here [w3.org] to learn a little about server headers. The Apache or the Microsoft forums (depending on your server of course!) have plenty of discussions about the "hows and whys" of redirects. Do some reading! :)

<added>If you're using an Apache server, this ancient thread [webmasterworld.com] may be just what the doctor ordered!</added>

[finer9]

I can 100% guarantee I am correctly using 301 and have been for over 6 months and the domain has not been updated in Yahoo.

[woody2004]

I guess their system is sort of working as the cached pages show the 'new' pages.

Just would be nice if the correct url displayed as well :-)

[EDIT]Actually I take that back as I just tried deleting one of the redirects and the serp linked to a 404

Surely it can't be that hard to fix this?

[finer9]

you'd think they'd tackle something reasonably easy that bothers an important stakeholder: webmasters

Where is YahooGuy when you need him? ;)

[The_Hitcher]

Yeah, six months is about the same time frame I've had this 301 ignore problem with Yahoo. Also about the same time as all the Inktomi problems started and those problems are still with us too. Yahoo now seem too big to handle what they've bought themselves into and the 'we'll fix it soon' claim has now worn VERY thin (yawn).

[abates]

In my server logs I consistantly see Yahoo's bot fetch the old URL, get a 301 and then immediately fetch the correct page.

I am considering cloaking so that I can feed the bot a 410 error and give all other traffic a 301 to the new page. Anyone know if this is likely to work?

[RFranzen]

In my case, I cannot issue 301 redirects from my old domain. Using meta redirection, though, seems to result in the same problem you-all are seeing with 301's. I reported the meta case in a thread last week:

* [webmasterworld.com...]

-- Rich