View Full Version : My Chat With Yahoo! Search & Co.
rustybrick
11-17-2004, 12:27 AM
This is way too long to post in a forum setting, so I will link to Informal Discussion with Tim Mayer and the Yahoo! Search Folks (http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001155.html).
On a personal note, the Yahoo! Search people are really nice and fun people. If you have any questions in regards to my discussion with the Yahoo people, please post it here. Also, if you want me to ask specific questions to Tim or the others at Yahoo, please let me know and I will do my best to get a solid answer (but word them in a fashion so that they can answer it).
Thanks!
Nick W
11-17-2004, 03:49 AM
>>Tim
Buy him a beer for me please Rusty, he's a good chap and a nice friend to TW :)
Nice write up!
rustybrick
11-17-2004, 10:07 AM
Well Yahoo will be buying everyone beers tonight at the Yahoo party. :D
Tim is a great guy.
Marcia
11-17-2004, 04:37 PM
l'd like to know if they'll be doing anything about the 302 problems. I've come across even more that are seriously problematic.
I'm also particularly interested in whether there will ever be a chance of going back to the old PFI the way it was with Ink, without the PPC. I loved it - would be doing a slew of pages myself right now if it weren't PPC, and I'm sure a lot of others would be also. It just doesn't make sense for some.
rustybrick
11-17-2004, 06:23 PM
l'd like to know if they'll be doing anything about the 302 problems. I've come across even more that are seriously problematic.
Hearing it first here, part of Tim Mayer's presentation and he is still speaking now:
Redirect Handling By Yahoo. All this stuff should be working ok in two weeks. Redirects from one domain to another will index the "target" rather then the "source". Meta Redirects: > 1 sec treated as a 301, < 1 sec is treated as a 302. Redirects internal will keep the source as the main link. This will be launched shortly, and you should see stuff happening in the next four weeks. This should fix all the issues discussed in the forums.
Chris_D
11-20-2004, 11:39 PM
Hey Barry,
Thanks for the heads up. Over the past month its been just crazy watching a clients indexed domain name bounce around, as Yahoo! finally found some 8 year old test server names. You know - www1, www2 etc. Once a site/ domain has been around for 8 years, with the old test names redirected to www you'd think they'd have realised which was the 'current' one wouldn't you!!