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Issue #069: Myweb

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June 06, 2006                             SearchReturn Issue #069
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            "Internal 301"
                     ~ Ed Last

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            "Internal 301"
                     ~ Jeff Carr

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            "Yahoo! Upgrades MyWeb"

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==> Internal 301

"What patterns have people experienced as far as PageRank
distribution/loss, speed of re-indexing, SERPs fluctuation etc.
when using a 301 redirect on internal pages?"

From: Ed Last 

We did this on a client's domain about 3 months ago - The results
differed completely, between MSN / Yahoo! and Google. Google
didn't pickup our change for about 6 weeks - MSN registered the
new change, and the SERP positions were much better, all within 2
weeks - Yahoo's SERP positions only changed a little (for the
better), and it took about 3 weeks to happen. When Google
eventually caught up, the PR stayed, there was no change to the
SERP positions.

That's the only information I've got on internal 301 redirects.

Obviously I don't know your situation, but, in my opinion, if
you've got high-traffic positions 1 and 2, I wouldn't risk the
301 change.

Hope that enlightens you,
Ed

 

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==> Internal 301

From: Jeff Carr 

Hi Barry,

We re-launched a site on April 12th that had an average PageRank
value of 3 spread throughout. We set up internal 301s from the
old pages to the new pages. When the new site launched, the home
page kept its PR but none of the others saw an immediate
transfer. It's now June 1st and none of the PageRank has been
transferred over to the new pages.

That said, Google Sitemaps shows a "yet to be assigned" PR
distribution. I'll keep you posted.

Cheers!

Jeff

 

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==> Yahoo! Upgrades MyWeb

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000310.html

Also:

http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3611306

Essentials: Several new features to Yahoo!'s MyWeb that appear to
be significantly influenced by the strong direction the company
took towards personalized search and social bookmarking,
especially considering the purchase of Del.icio.us. Note the
compelling commentary about the strength of tagging and search
results within community bookmarks of saved pages, even with
interests that are not as popular as CSS or XML.

 

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