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Yahoo having 302 problems again?

My site indexed incorrectly....

         

crobb305

10:10 pm on May 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

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When I search site:mysite.com, and then click the "omitted results" link, there are 3 versions of my homepage, each from different urls using a 302.

My homepage seems to have taken a hit from dup content.

Any suggestions? Anything I can do via htaccess to prevent the 302s?

C

crobb305

11:12 am on May 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Still does not look good. Today, I searched Yahoo for a snipped of text from my homepage. The resulting serps page shows one listing as if it were my url (even shows my domain below the description). But, clicking the cache shows "This is the cache of [someotherwebsite.com"...]

Depending on the snippet of text I search for, and the resulting cache (since my content changes frequently), I am finding that Yahoo is caching my homepage with up to 3 different 302 referrer urls.

When I do a site: search, all of these are listed in the "omitted results", and the actual cache of my homepage url is not found. All of my rankings are gone which means there is a serious issue affecting my site's indexing because of these 302's.

what can I do?

crobb305

8:14 pm on May 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I have contacted the hosting companies of the three websites that link to my homepage using 302. Hopefully they will see that the referring urls get deleted.

Now, the question is, how do I get Yahoo to remove the urls/cache for those referring urls and stop incorrectly associating the urls with my site?

Does anyone have any suggestions? Anyone have this problem before and successfully get it resolved?