Comments on: MSN / Live Bot Does Not Follow 301 Redirects?

By: One Tree Hill

One Tree Hill — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:44:26 +0000

Wow and i have been using 301 redirects for the longest

By: Rishabh

Rishabh — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:08:49 +0000

MSN seems to have found out what 399s are. At least for my website

By: UtahSEO-PR

UtahSEO-PR — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:10:32 +0000

That’s a fair amount of traffic to consider. Glad it worked out for you.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:18:48 +0000

Just a million unique visitors monthly, multiplied by even a potential 1 percent MS Live referrals is still a fair number of potentially lost visitors.

However, it appears that MS got the URL’s now, and the cached 301 Apache image is gone. cool Every little bit helps…

By: UtahSEO-PR

UtahSEO-PR — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:57:11 +0000

If Google and Yahoo got it right who cares.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:36:53 +0000

oh yeah? hmm - nope, not seeing it yet on my end - thanks though, I’ll keep an eye out.

By: 5ubliminal

5ubliminal — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:59:31 +0000

MSN seems to have found out what 301s are. At least for my website

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:37:19 +0000

Mike - Interesting… 302’s get followed but not 301’s? huh.

Utah - I suppose that’s possible, but they should follow the standard that others do, wouldn’t you think?

On THIS domain, (pdxtc.com) it appears as if the permalink change of a couple of weeks ago didn’t stump MSFT so -

I just edited the robots.txt on the domain which is the subject of this post to point to the sitemap - we’ll see if it now indexes the pages. - tick - tock - waiting.

By: Utah SEO

Utah SEO — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:25:00 +0000

I wonder if it’s dependent on how the redirects are implemented. For example:

redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com

as opposed to a full mod_rewrite?

By: Scott Hendison

Scott Hendison — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:55:55 +0000

Thanks BC, for commenting

Matt - so in a case like this where an entire domain is missing from the Microsoft search engine, what can you do?

Actually I did decide to try sticking the path to the site map in the robots.txt file. That was something that had not been done on this domain so I figured I’d give it a shot

Ha - it actually did help cut down the spam comments to add the zeros!