302 in Google looks Bad again.

I have been testing a new Banner - PPC tracking system it’s closed beta at the moment. but the system allows Html Banner ad’s which we split test the text you can see an example here www.davidnaylor.co.uk/v10-html-banner.html the system uses either a straight link text or 301 which of course would influence search engines, but we were happy in our own minds that if the links were internal then that was cool. The system also has a optional switch of a 302 (that’s it default) so not to mess with the search engines… But today I searched for “search marketing” in Google and noticed two listing without snippets (usually means a redirect or something bad)

I have hi lighted in yellow on the image below:
search marketing

header checks show 302 redirects :

http://www.remixmedia.com
87.248.116.90
HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:13:00 GMT
Location: http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing/index.php?&abr=2022403519

http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/index.php
87.248.116.90
HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:14:45 GMT
Location: http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing/index.php?&abr=2022403519

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8 Comments | Leave a comment »

1. Joost de Valk | March 3rd 2008 @ 2:49 pm

Yeah it’s amazing how bad it is again… Seen it happen just about everywhere…
2. Nikke | March 3rd 2008 @ 5:03 pm

We’ve seen it happen where affiliates in our network use 302 redirects internally before pointing links to our affiliate tracking system, and even if it’s nice for us as an affiliate network, it’s mostly downright embarrising in the face of customers and affiliates.
3. Richard Hearne | March 3rd 2008 @ 6:28 pm

Using the geotargeting tool within Google can also cause this.
Not likely related to the above, but worth mentioning.
4. teddie | March 3rd 2008 @ 9:38 pm

Have also seen this in a big way, in guise that appears to be similar to the old pagejacking flaw. Sent in a bug report to Google the other week.
5. amelia | March 4th 2008 @ 4:25 am

well well am really wondering whats 302 all about thank GOD i found this post, now its clear to me, thanks for the post :)
6. SEO London | March 5th 2008 @ 10:51 am

Just tried that search and I don’t get anything like that in top 100 results. Maybe an issue with personalized search?
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8. DAG | March 6th 2008 @ 2:39 pm

Look this query
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=intitle%3A%22yahoo+search+marketing%22+-site%3Ayahoo.com

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