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Craig B
post May 19 2004, 02:37 PM
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Hello,

I am investigating a 'querk' in the search engine listings for the domain name: highlands-inn.com. Here is what is going on:

1. highlands-inn.com redirects to highlandsinn.hyatt.com - I understand that this should be a 301 permanent redirect but this is not the issue. It also redirects again from the root url to /property/index.jhtml but this is not the issue either.

2. For some reason, when we search for 'west dearborn hotel', 'west dearborn' or 'hyatt regency dearborn' the domain 'highlands-inn.com' shows up instead of 'dearborn.hyatt.com' on MSN and Yahoo! We are not sure why! Hyatt Highlands is in California while Dearborn is in Michigan. Why would a California redirect page show up before the real Hyatt hotel in Michigan? (I'll post the redirect pages code below)

Any ideas? (I find this very strange!)

thanks,
Craig

Redirect #1 at http://www.highlands-inn.com
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<html>

    <head>
               <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
               <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="innhighlands-inncarmelhighlandcalifornialodging">
 <meta name="description" content="Carmel Hotels: Hyatt Luxury Hotels and Resorts: Highlands Inn - A Park Hyatt Hotel, Carmel, USA">
 <title>Welcome to Highlands Inn</title>
 <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;URL=http://www.highlandsinn.hyatt.com">
    </head>

    <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
 <div align="center">
   
 </div>
    </body>

</html>


Redirect #2 at root at http://www.highlandsinn.hyatt.com
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<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"><html><head><TITLE>Hyatt.com</TITLE><script language="Javascript"><!-- //
window.location.replace ('/property/index.jhtml');
//-->    </script></head><body></body></html>
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post May 19 2004, 02:58 PM
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I believe I heard something about this issue on Yahoo where they haven't implemented (bug?) the 301 properly, meaning they don't take the original out of the listings like they should. I'd imagine you'll just have to wait until they fix that or contact them and pester them to make it happen faster.
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post May 19 2004, 03:34 PM
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Yahoo admitted that was a bug they were working on at SES. I'd wait it out if possible.

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I do not think this has anything to do with a redirect. I just posted the code so that it could be excluded from the problem. Here is the issue:

When I search for Hyatt Regency Dearborn, here are the results:

On Google - Correct

On MSN - Incorrect

On Yahoo - Incorrect

The issue is when I am searching for that term, a hotel listing in California shows up before the correct Michigan hotel.

Any ideas?
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post May 19 2004, 04:11 PM
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Guess: the California higlands Inn is a valid site, URL etc. The bot hits it, indexes everything, the redirect kicks in but the bot already left? (Not sure how bots handle delayed redirects).

Thus the search will find that site then their results pick it up since even with the re-direct it is more important than the link being redirected to? Less text but exact hits in name and primary data that it would use.

If the meta-tag of NOINDEX, FOLLOW was in there then the bot would just not index this site at all, it would drop off the seach results but the real site would be indexed.
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post May 20 2004, 09:41 AM
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Wow, Craig. That is bizarre. My best guess was that Yahoo was still working with an old version of the page that did include "Dearborn" somewhere in it (however obscure), but their cached version at least is indeed just the raw JavaScript -- no "Dearborn" at all.

A legitimate SEO Guru title to the one who can figure this one out.
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post May 20 2004, 11:45 AM
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Totally. I have no idea why this is happening. (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)
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