The bane of my life as been the 302, 301 issues between Webmasters and Search Engines, Today I was checking out the Uk rankings for Divan Bed and Divan Beds,
Google UK : Divan Bed do you see the
http://track.webgains.com/click.html?wgcampaignid=1761&wgprogramid=485
Here is the header information :
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:43:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.55 (Unix) mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.1 mod_ssl/2.0.55 OpenSSL/0.9.7a P3P: policyref="http://www.webgains.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP=\"NON DSP COR NID ADM DEV CURi OUR NOR COM NAV"
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:43:49 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: wgdc0=1189161829; DOMAIN=track.webgains.com; PATH=/ Set-Cookie: wgc0=1761|485|0||1189161829|||http://www.bedstar.co.uk?utm_campaign=Affiliates&utm_medium=datafeed&utm_source=webgains.com|1196937829; EXPIRES=Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:43:49 GMT; DOMAIN=track.webgains.com; PATH=/
Location: http://www.bedstar.co.uk?utm_campaign=Affiliates&utm_medium=datafeed&utm_source=webgains.com&adnetwork=webgains&siteid=1761
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
DaveN
8 Comments
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7th September 2007 @ 12:46
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Liking that Bedstar site. Especially the link at the bottom of the homepage - ‘Listed On Google.co.uk’ - which shows you that they rank 37th for ‘bedstar’. Nice.
7th September 2007 @ 12:57
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I’ve seen this many times recently, the problem does seem to be when a 302 redirect is followed with another redirect. usually 302->301->found
7th September 2007 @ 13:25
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I can see that if user has flash >= v.6 then
I think it is a flash redirect, isnt’ it?
7th September 2007 @ 14:56
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Sorry, I posted some code and blog killed it
content of SRC attribute of EMBED tag is:h t t p: / / track.webgains.com/wg.swf” FlashVars=”campaignid=1761&programid=485&linkid=0&clickref=&time=1189173216&referrer=http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=divan+bed&btnG=Search&meta=&origsource=&expiry=1196949216&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bedstar.co.uk%3Futm_campaign%3DAffiliates%26utm_medium%3Ddatafeed%26utm_source%3Dwebgains.com%26adnetwork%3Dwebgains%26siteid%3D1761
I think it is a flash redirect, isnt’ it?
7th September 2007 @ 14:58
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Not sure if you’ve seen this - there’s a big thread about this over at A4U - all about the Bedstar SERP from the affiliate and webgains point of view. Well worth a read.
7th September 2007 @ 16:27
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Agree with Stu. I’ve had the same quirk(with Webgains, actually), when I accidentally set 302 (instead of 301) redirect in .HTACCESS to mask an affiliate link.
8th September 2007 @ 13:21
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[...] Instead of promoting quality content current relevancy algorithms support information pollution. Google goes out and scares you about keeping your link profile natural while letting proxies hack your rankings. And they have known about this problem for years, just like 302 redirect. [...]
18th September 2007 @ 23:35
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The webgains page redirects me twice. The first is a 302 to a webgains tracking page and the second is by meta refresh to the bedstar page.