How does bing-bot( is that the right spider-name? ) and googlebot interpret 301 redirect?
- by jbcurtin
I've been looking for documentation on how the Microsoft and Google bots interpret 301 redirects.
It seems that google-bot stores documents on a url based index system. But I haven't been able to figure out how bing works. Should I assume that they are still working towards coping everyone else and assume they use an algorithm close to google?
Is it best to just forward a page to a new location via Javascript? I think this might be a blackhat trick, but how would I tell the bots that it's not?
Is 301 redirect my best option and I just have to bit the bullet because said pages are no longer in existence?
What other options do I have that I might not be aware of?