302 redirect

If someone is linking to several of my pages with a 302 redirect, is it a problem anymore, or has this problem been long solved?

 

how this is problem? its good that traffic is redirecting to you!

 

I don't know, it used to be a huge problem in 2005. It was supposed to be solved but I just wanted to see if everyone else thought it was solved.

 

if somebody is linking to your site, i dont think that it will be problem. i think you must look the sites that you are linking

 

if some p0rn or adult etc google banned sites links to your site, then it sure is a problem! but then forget it, as you can not do anything about it!

 

i will start some adult and p0rn sites to kill my competitor

 

It is solved now. I explain why in an article about 302 redirects in my blog.

Jean-Luc

 

Thanks Jean-Luc

 

Wtf are you talking about? None of what you said has anything related to a fact in it.

Actually, Jean-Luc, you don't explain why it is solved, you just claim that it is.

As to whether or not they actually fixed it is up for debate I think. I know at least one sighting of possible 302 problems this year (although not a hijack per se):

I can't find it, but I think Jean-Luc is right that Google did in fact publicly claim to have fixed the issue somewhere. I guess it's just a matter of whether or not you trust them.

-Michael

 

I did not give enough details. The problem has disappeared because Google and Yahoo almost always return the destination page when there is a 302 redirecting from a domain to a different domain.

For more details, see:
- Google: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-discussing-302-redirects/
- Yahoo: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp/slurp-11.html

Jean-Luc

 

I agree, it's solved.

 

"Almost always" does not mean fixed. Google has no intention of fixing the problem completely, as SEO Advice: Discussing 302 Redirects alludes. Google sees replacing the actual 200 status code producing url with a temporary, 302 status code producing url as necessary at times.

This leaves a hole for a 302 hijack to occur. Google was doing great for awhile, but something definitely changed about 6 months or so ago. Google is having canonicalization problems, and it is tough to judge what effect changes in the way they handle redirected urls will have without an update or two.

Hopefully, they will go back to what they were doing in 2006, it seems to be the best it had ever been. I don't think that the problem is completely repairable; it seems to be embedded in the algo somehow, and probably does have some useful function.

Currently, the problem still exists:
http://www.google.com/search?q=info:http://www.capita-ld.co.uk/
shows cache, similar, and backlink information that actually belongs to capita.co.uk, and not capita-ld.co.uk.

 

Ok, I see the hijack, but not the 302... did one used to exist for that site? Are they the same company, and did they have one parked over the other at one time?

Also, even though it isn't what shows on an info:, there is still a separate cache for www.capita-ld.co.uk. Weirdness.

-Michael

 

The site was actually pointed out to me by Paz in the 302 Hijacks Returning? thread:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2762986
(His first post there is informative as well.)
I imagine the problem was similar to what minstrel experienced, an error document set up wrong causing the 302 redirect:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=982890
(You might read a page back and forward of that post to understand the context.)

 

NetMidWest

Thanks. You helped me.