Myrtle2
Joined: 24 Nov 2012
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 Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 3:48 pm Post subject: SEO Problem: 302 redirects instead of 301 redirects |
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This is an easy redirect for developers to get wrong because, from a user's perspective, they can't tell the difference. However, the search engines treat these redirects very differently. Just to recap, a 301 redirect is permanent and the search engines will treat it as such; they'll pass link equity across to the new page. A 302 redirect is a temporary redirect and the search engines will not pass link equity because they expect the original page to come back at some point.
How to solve:
To find 302 redirected URLs, I recommend using a deep crawler such as Screaming Frog or the IIS SEO Toolkit. You can then filter by 302s and check to see if they should really be 302s, or if they should be 301s instead.
To fix the problem, you will need to ask your developers to change the rule so that a 301 redirect is used rather than a 302 redirect.
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