MSN / Live Bot Does Not Follow 301 Redirects?

Discussion in 'Bing' started by Prof.stan, Nov 30, 2007.

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    Will anybody let me know if this is true or not that MSN / Live Bot Does Not Follow 301 Redirects. that is new site will not get any credit from older one
     
    Prof.stan, Nov 30, 2007 IP
  2. multippt

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    Windows Live and MSN does not respect 301 redirects [permanent redirects] unlike Google and Yahoo.
    (Is it me, or does this seem a little too similar to a Sphinn article I saw earler... :p).

    They will follow it, but you would lose your rankings (you'll need to start from scratch).
     
    multippt, Nov 30, 2007 IP
  3. iaria

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    I think it follows but not instantly like googlebot or slurp, it will come later to the new site
     
    iaria, Dec 1, 2007 IP
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    I agree with the above responses and I remember someone from MSN saying that changing sites or even URLs for your pages should be avoided if you care about rankings.
     
    NineFingers, Dec 2, 2007 IP
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    Yeh it happens to my site too. My all rankings gone in MSN/Live after i put 301 redirect on my site.
    Now my 4 pages indexed in Live :D hopefully it will index my all pages.
     
    the_indian, Dec 3, 2007 IP