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SEO 302 Redirect

You must always use 301 redirects instead of 302 redirects.

Using 302 can give you very bad ranking in the search engines.

If you have a page that you need to redirect and you use the 302 redirect for example in .htaccess file you are telling search engines that it is a temporary link and you will

loose all SEO juice.

Always use 301 Redircets if you are forced to do redirects.     

Technical output

Warning: Page uses 302 redirect! It really shoudn\'t! (redirected from %s)

[usually server should use code 301 for redirects]

Whether Google actually handles 302s properly is an open question. If you use a 302 when you should be using a 301, there's a chance Google or some other search engines might keep your old URL in the index, and then filter out your new URL as a duplicate. You might end up with link popularity divided between the two domains, hurting your search rankings. The search engines might figure out how to handle your 302, or they might not. So why take a chance?