yahoo and 404 pages

[Sushubh]

i hate it when search engines do not follow 404 rules

"India Broadband Forum - You have reached a dead page!" - Yahoo! Search Results

 

[amish]

Its not search engine bug:
curl -I https://broadbandforum.co/lofiversion/index.php/f18.html

reply is code 200. HTML o/p says dead page but HTTP reply code is 200 i.e. Success.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 04:00:29 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

It shud be like this

curl -I http://www.yahoo.com/asdadad

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 04:22:22 GMT
P3P: policyref="http://p3p.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi PUBi IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE GOV"
Cache-Control: private
Vary: User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

 

[Sushubh]

try now?looks like vbseo wont send the 404 message along with a custom page

 

[amish]

yup now its fine.

curl -I https://broadbandforum.co/lofiversion/index.php/f18.html

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 04:34:13 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

 

[Sushubh]

time to post a question on vbseo...

Yahoo 404 pages and VBSEO - vBulletin SEO Forums

check now. https://broadbandforum.co/404/

 

[amish]

yes solved. showing dead page and code 404 too and that yahoo search result for dead pages have almost gone too.

but searching "India Broadband Forum" "dead page" still gives many answers, shud resolve in 2-3 days though
Yahoo! Search - Web Search

 

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[Sushubh]

198 pages... let's see.

 

[Sushubh]

194

 

[amish]

correction 96-97 more days lol. i think yahoo must be having some N number of days as timeout before it thinks that page which was available earlier is really gone.

 

[amish]

all gone!

 

[Sushubh]

i can see 1 page left here

many more here:
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fbroadbandforum.co&bwm=p&bwms=p&fr=sfp&fr2=seo-rd-se

 

[amish]

may be site explorer is configured to show dead links as well, so that webmaster can easily detect dead links on their website.btw why is Apache so old? hope its patched!Server: Apache/1.3.37