Comments on: SEO advice: discussing 302 redirects

By: Brett Cairns

Brett Cairns — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:16:03 +0000

This issue continues to be topical. What I do not understand is whether or not a 301 is needed when I have a .ca and .com domain for the same site and I have set a domain preference in webmaster tools and added a canonical tag to the header of each page.

By: Naeem

Naeem — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:20:17 +0000

i have moved my website emoiz.com via 301 to moiz.co.uk will this lose my trafic from google ?

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:37:58 +0000

Will a 302 redirect from the host penalize the page it’s being redirected to?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:13:17 +0000

I am going to use a 301 redirect to my main domain instead of 302. I hope Google will agree with this.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:33:42 +0000

Matt, thanks for detailed explanation of 301 and 302 redirects

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:20:06 +0000

Great post as always Matt!!

I had never heard of the 302 – only the 301, but after reading your post I have realised that I can make one of my websites more search engine friendly.

By: Sagar

Sagar — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:16:23 +0000

Does a 302 redirect effect search results ?
My domain has a 302 redirect from technetsavvy.com to http://www.technetsavvy.com. Does this effect search rankings in anyway ? Or is it recommended that I remove the above redirect ?

By: soha

soha — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:47:02 +0000

I bought a domain having PR 5, and I installed my new blog on that domain. but its already have old urls indexed in google, how do I do redirection with my new site without losing google SERP and PR. Please Help

By: Bryan Ruiz

Bryan Ruiz — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:27:14 +0000

Hi Matt,

What do you think google would do when it sees a successive set of 302 redirects such as this:

1. domain-one.com ===302 redirects to ==> domain-two.com?sessionSyncScript.php?token=hash
2. domain-two.com?sessionSyncScript.php?token=hash ===302 redirects to ==> domain-one.com

This can be used for sharing sessions across two domains. Will this confuse google bots or cause an issue with how Google sees the quality of the page?

The session should only be “synced” every 15 mins or so I would believe, and can detect google-bots and not do the 302 redirects then?

Do you believe this would have any impact?

Thanks Matt!

By: Nguyễn Khánh Lâm

Nguyễn Khánh Lâm — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:59:39 +0000

Dear Matt,

Thank you very much for your information.

I am currently running http://www.studyguide.com.vn. I already put:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^studyguide.com.vn
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.studyguide.com.vn/$1 [R=301,L]

in my .htaccess code but the return is also 302 redirect. Does it affect my SEO campaign and how much will it affect?

I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Regards,