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Google Profiles Doing the 302 Hop?
May 04, 2009
Continuing in my vainglory of days past, I was surprised today while exploring below the fold to see my Google Profile suddenly appear as a tenth result along with the standard extra bottom result (with smiling picture) for a vanity search:
Even more surprising, if you look at the yellow highlighted rectangle, is that Google choose to show www.google.com/profiles/116187582762783426547 as the URL for the result, rather than the www.google.com/profiles/John.Lustina vanity URL that I selected as my preference, when offered, in the initial setup of my Profile.
Now, I was happy to see that it redirected to http://www.google.com/profiles/John.Lustina when clicked, yet wondered why the numerical URL would yet list if the redirect were a 301. My SEO senses tingling, I went to Rex The Answer Man to find this:
Why a 302 temporary redirect? Why not just keep them numerical rather than vain if they are not going to implement a proper 301?
Isn't that what they would have us counsel our clients in a similar scenario?
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posted by John Lustina at May 4, 2009 09:10 PM
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Comments
Wow! That's interesting. Google has always maintained that they aren't interested in SEO, but if they offered that as an option you would think they would index it that way?
I would think that they would want their profile to rank at the top for a name-search, and using the vanity URL would probably be the best way. I think you're right, they must be doing the "302-Hop" for the Google Profiles...
Posted by: Agent SEO at May 5, 2009 08:45 AM
interesting, I'll have to make a google profile
Posted by: Chris Chong at June 2, 2009 05:22 PM
interesting, I'll have to make a google profile
Posted by: Chris Chong at June 2, 2009 05:23 PM