The Infamous 301

How does Yahoo do with internal site 301s

[Fiver]

I have a generalized 301 anxiety disorder, and reading the latest Yahoo update thread does little to alleviate my symptoms.

Does anyone have Yahoo specific experience with converting a dynamic site (loads of?'s and ='s) to a static site, then 301ing the old indexed pages to the new pretty urls?

I'm confident Google would handle this fairly smoothly, but I'm not at all confident Yahoo would.

Is there a better way than 301 that I'm simply oblivious to?

[LunaC]

I have a few to move to (old legacy site with no organization), so far I've moved about 50 pages and waited to see how it took.

MSN was the fastest (within the week), Yahoo a fairly close second with Google taking longer than I expected, but within a month and a bit, they have everything sorted out.
Oddly, Google was the first to discover the new urls according to the logs.

Rankings never slid, a few went up (but to be fair I don't think that had anything to do with it, the site got a bit of a boost all around) and it was surprisingly smooth.

I kept the page content identical or as close as possible, updated internal links and did a 301 to catch externals.

I'm going to do it very slowly, maybe another 50 pages this week and keep at it till it's all reorganized. I'm just a bit paranoid to shuffle too much too fast and risk any losses despite it going so smoothly for the first test batch.

Edit:
Oops, I forgot to add, these were static pages, I haven't moved any dynamic ones yet but I'd guess it would be similar results.

[edited by: LunaC at 9:49 pm (utc) on Oct. 27, 2006]