Confirmed: Bing Recommends 301 Redirection
Confirmed: Bing Recommends 301 Redirection
I have been writing about Bing.com and how Bing.com is becoming another powerhouse for webmasters throughout last couple of weeks. Recently I added a SEO plugin for one of my cell phone news blog and which gave me a lot of 404 errors. To correct that I started to use 301 redirect based on the facts that google prefers a 301 redirect. Keep in mind that, Microsoft prefers a 302 redirect but I did 301 redirect anyways since google prefers 301 redirects. This question was also brought out in Bing webmaster forum and it has been verified that Bing now prefers a 301 redirect and it strongly recommends NOT to use a 302 redirect. So, for all of you out there, if you are doing 301 redirect then keep it going and for those who don’t, then its time to switch your 302 redirect into 301 redirect.
Filed Under: Search Engine Optimization
That’s all great, except that Bing doesn’t seem to handle 301 redirects either. Just do a search for Bing and 301 (preferrably in Google).