301 redirects and Yahoo

is there a problems with 301s and Yahoo?

[Clay Wimberley]

I just recently redesigned my site and put it on a new server. It still has the same domain name, but the file structure is different, so almost all of the equivalent pages have different file names now (plus i'm using .cfm files instead of .htm). We're using 301 redirects to point our old pages to the new ones, but i heard from someone that there could be problems with yahoo and 301 redirects. they were saying how you could end up dissapearing from their search results because of it....is there any truth to that?

[kevinpate]

Slurp follows 301's just fine in my experience.
But it follows them again and again and again
as though they were 302's. At least that's been my experience.

[Clay Wimberley]

I there a problem with it following the 301s over and over? should i remove the 301s at some point or is it not necessary? Does anyone know of any negative things about 301 redirects?

[kevinpate]

only problem is that once you take the 301 down, next time slurp comes back, it gets a 404 and then this repeats the next time and the next time and the next time. Sometimes I think Slurp might possibly be shorthand for:
Slow Learning Unintelligent Robot Protocol
But then, I'm no prize myself :)

[travisk]

I went through a similar change recently and I observed strange behavior in Yahoo search results. All of our old URLs still show up in the search results, but they contain the content of our home page, which is where I redirected the URLs. Yahoo is following the 301 redirects, but still indexing the results as the original URL. Strange....

[Clay Wimberley]

did you keep your old site up (the one you redirected from)? Does yahoo still keep the old site indexed if you've taked it down?

[travisk]

I took my old site down and redirected every page to the homepage of the new site.

[Powdork]

I 301'd a directory of my site in early june. The old pages still show up in the serps. It's better than the alternative (Google). They handled the 301's correctly and prompmtly dumped the new site into the sandbox, where it still resides.