If I move my web pages to a new site, will you update my URLs to match the new address?
Last Updated: November 22, 2009
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Our web database automatically updates without manual intervention. To make sure your new pages are updated by our web crawler in our next web crawl, please configure an HTTP 301 permanent redirect on the old pages to point to the newer ones.

The HTTP 301 permanent redirect makes sure that users are redirected to the newer content and that the new pages are picked up during our next web crawl. Your listing in the Yahoo! Search index continues to reflect the older content until it is updated in the next crawl.

Please use the following link to learn more about How the Yahoo! Web Crawler handles redirects?

A software application which travels the Internet in order to catalogue web documents for inclusion in the Yahoo! Search index.

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