My current website is http://www.qualityharnessandcable.com

I put a shorter website on some promotional items and knowing that some people still do not know how to put a web address in the url form, I wanted to make sure the redirect worked in search engines.

The shorter URL is qhc-assembly.com

If you put this into google, my site comes up and is the first result. However, if you put the same term into yahoo or ask, there is no mention of my site and has terrible results. This redirect has been in place for over a year and I just now thought about checking the search results for the shorter site.

Does anyone have any ideas how to get this resolved? It looks like google actually checks for redirects and displays the correct result.

THANKS in advance!

It's because you are sending a 302 response (FOUND or temporary redirect) where you should be sending a 301 response (Moved Permanently)

yah, its a big difference between 302 and 301 always use 301 redirect... make sure of that before making it work.

I placed this code in the top of my index.html

<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.qualityharnessandcable.com");
exit();
?>

I also took out the dns redirect that was being provided by my hosting service. Do you think this is all I need to do? I will test after my 1 hour TTL expires

I was finally able to make it work by creating a .htaccess file and placing the following code:

redirect 301 /index.html http://www.qualityharnessandcable.com/index.html

The redirect works flawless again, I just hope that the search engines like it as well.

That's it. 301 and 302 redirect are different. Use 301 redirect so that you wont get any problem.

Somethings I learned here. Thanks for sharing and seeing the difference between 301 and 302 redirect.

Is it because yahoo is only the
second best engine and google
owns the crown for being the
top search engine? LOL...