Is a 302 redirect ok if it comes from the Yahoo Directory?

Not sure if Google will penalize us or not.

[JeffOstroff]

I noticed today that Yahoo has a link to another one of our sites in it's wedding directory.

When I test the link to our site with a header checking tool, I notice they are linking to us with a 302 Redirect. I know this is typically bad from loser sites, but does Google still penalize us if it's from the Yahoo Directory?

[JeffOstroff]

Forgot to mention, the directory page on Yahoo that the link to our site is located on has a PR=7.

[g1smd]

Check the status code using HTTP/1.1 to be sure that it really is a 302 redirect.

[JeffOstroff]

yes, it really is a 302 redirect, that is what I said, we used a reliable tool to verify the redirect is a 302, it shows the 302 first, then it shows the server spitting out the 200 once it is redirected to the main page.

[trinorthlighting]

Can you change it to a 301? If you can not, I would not worry about it much.

[JeffOstroff]

no you cannot change it, because Yahoo implements the link as a 302, so the apace server sees it as a 302.

[trinorthlighting]

I would not worry about it then. If it has good pr it should not hurt.