I'm noticing MAJOR SERP changes on Yahoo.com at the moment - detrimental ones. Does anyone know if Yahoo has a problem with a .301?
Hi, I guess it depends on the site, but I've found that yahoo can be very slow to update after a 301, though it does work eventually. Cheers, Paz.
Yeah, I recently 301'ed my site about 3 months back. In the past two weeks, google and MSN have begun ranking my pages again, but yahoo doesn't even have my own site name as number 1 in the serps :/
Two pages on Yahoo that answer your question: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/indexing/indexing-08.html http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp/slurp-11.html Hope this helps.
I'm having issues with 301's and Yahoo. 3 months ago I migrated a site from .asp to .html About a month ago, I discovered cannonical issues. I have proper 301's for both issues but, Yahoo is still showing a few cached pages that are a month or 2 old. The strange thing I noticed today, Yahoo is starting to show and old asp page with no description using the site:domain.com search.
Yahoo is known to be super slow. I fixed a stupid duplicate content issue using 301 a while back, and only now am I getting any rankings for it. Just make sure it's all fixed up and concentrate elsewhere. It'll work itself out eventually...
Yeah, i think for 301, MSN > Google > Yahoo > Ask. Heh, ask.com still has a respectable share of the search engine market.
Yahoo is unbelievably slow to update. For some reason I'm seeing some of my pages that were taken down LAST YEAR in the SERPs. Morevoer, Yahoo has still not fully indexed my 'new' .com site that went online last October! If MSN and Google can spider and cache on a regular basis, why can't Yahoo? I'm honestly starting to believe they simply don't want to update.
I plan to leave these 301's in place permanently. Some of the search engines seem to like it better that way. Even though yahoo has updated and indexed most of the new pages it is still looking for the old pages with the 301's. The problem I keep running into, deeplinks to .asp pages that were migrated to .html. (php running as .html) I should have left the extension as .asp and added that as a php handler in apache.
If 301 is so problimatic, why dont we all just delete the daRn files and let Googles/MSN's/Yahooooo's just hit a lot of 404's. All their docs say they remove 404 docs after a certain point anyways. Do we really need to play nice since THEY are so slow?
Haha.... nice idea but the yahoo slurp bot will search for the missing pages for months... if you delete enough pages, you won't be able to read your logs for all the 404 entries! Cheers, Paz.