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302 is the HTTP status code for a temporary redirect.

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Mobile version of a website showing up on my desktop google search

I search certain keywords in desktop google search and mobile version of my website shows up, vise versa. I use some methods to solve this problem: use <link rel="alternate"> and <link rel="...
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Using Redirect 301/302 vs URL shortening service

I'm currently developing an aggregator site that will gather information across many many sites, typically this kind of applications put together relevant topics and display different information from ...
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Is there a safe way to redirect traffic from a dozen old websites to a new (unrelated) website?

Over the years I've built over a dozen unsuccessful sites. They get 10-100 visitors per day each. The topics include all kinds of random things - recipes, hiking tips, military equipment, gym bloopers,...
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Ending a 302 redirect and its effect on Pagerank

Please imagine the following scenario: abc.com → 302 (temporary) redirect to def.com After 6 months, we no longer use def.com, so discard the domain and we buy a new domain xyz.com. We then do a 302 ...
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Search Console Fetch Not Found and Redirect

When fetching a URL in Search Console i get 3 results; success, redirect and not found. Can I ignore the redirect warnings or is Google telling me there is a problem? The not found pages; I can not ...
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How can I host a website on another domain without sacrificing SEO?

I have a domain bought at Godaddy, but I do not have a hosting service there. Rather, I have a subdomain on another site that I control, and forward it using a 302 temporary redirect. However, I have ...
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Why are redirected URLs displayed in SERP?

I use a permalink redirect mode for affiliate links. Something similar to www.example.com/out/google → this will 302 redirect to google.com. All these redirected URLs display in search using the ...
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How to get my site verified in Google Webmaster Tools(Search Console)?

One of my client site's home page is getting redirected to an internal page so how will it create any problem in getting it verified from Google Webmaster Tools? Moreover he has used 302 redirect so ...
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Temporarily redirect pages to a section of a landing page?

I have created a single page landing page while I redesign my website that has sections for popular pages. So the landing page has an events section, location section, contact section etc. How do I ...
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Is a masked 307 redirect for a domain possible?

I've been asked to create a 307 redirect for a domain, ensuring it is "masked". i.e. keep the original URL in the address bar. There isn't a lot of info available about 307 (as opposed to 301/302) ...
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SEO - Redirect domain root to different url for landing page

I plan to to put my web app to say http://example.com but for now i have only landing page with signup form. I thought about putting LP to http://example.com/welcome and I feel that this should be 302 ...
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Product Bundles - Choosing 301 or 302 When Redirecting All Child Items to 1 Parent

Let's say there is a product "Stainless BBQ Grill" which has various extra options available by "adding on" additional products. Lets call it a bundle/group/kit...components like side burner, digital ...
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Using .htaccess deny returning 302 and not 403 forbidden

I'm in the process of adding yet another layer of security to some of my WordPress installs, since some of my customers sites use shared hosting, and generally they do not ban users for brute force ...
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Google Webmaster Tools don't find sitemap.xml

I have a domain which I use in combination with GitHub Pages for my homepage. I have a sitemap.xml, which I submitted to Google Webmaster Tools. Unfortunately I get this error message: Redirection ...
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Quantcast http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel request 302 redirects to Facebook and other ad networks

I just spent a few hours investigating what I thought might be a malicious Chrome extension (using developer tool to audit them, highly recommended!), an ISP/DNS injection issue, or a malware ...
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SEO. Redirecting a website to my own website

I manage a website www.example.com. I have found another website called www.2.example. I want to talk and merge it with my own completely, so when people enter www.2.example they will end up on the ...
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302 Redirect SEO complaining about duplicate title

I have a category page that if it has one product on it, it will redirect to that particular product page using a 302 redirect. However because of this, if I look in google webmaster tools, it is ...
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Hacked Sites duplicating website & Google seeing wrong cache

Noticed a severe drop in organic rankings and traffic, after investigating what might have been the cause we have found 3 websites that have duplicated the site within their domains. When you click on ...
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How to disallow HTTP 302 redirects from another site to mine

Is there any way to disallow referral 302 redirect traffic coming to to my site from other sites? People are trying to HIJACK my SERP with 302 Redirect HIJACK method.
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Trying to add cache header to 301 pages made by ModRewrite

I have several URLs on my website that get redirected to other URLs using Mod-Rewrite. For example: RewriteRule ^section$ /newsection [NC,L,R=301] The above rule redirects http://example.com/section ...
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How can i do multiple 302 redirects in htaccess?

I'm currently using the following to redirect only 3-4 pages to new a site # Use PHP5.4 as default RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^news1\.html$ https://www.example.com/news1.html [R,L] RewriteRule ^...
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How to redirect a single web page other than using htaccess

I'd like to redirect a single web page, it will be a temporary redirect so I don't want it to affect SEO rankings. So I was thinking of using a method other than htaccess, but if it would be more ...
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X-Robots-Tag: noindex on an HTTP 302 response to remove subdomain

This very related to this question "X-Robots-Tag: noindex" on an HTTP 301 response, however I don't see a definitive answer. We have subdomains we use for our affiliate links, the ...
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If a 302 redirect is implemented, would the old site still be indexed?

If a 302 redirect is implemented, would the old site still be indexed? I’m assuming as the redirect is in place, a user would not see the contact on the old page hence search/crawl bots would not be ...
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Want to redirect a domain to a new domain using 301 or 302?

Firstly, I want to redirect an old domain to a new domain, (old site to new site). The old site has good ranking on Google, now if I redirect the site, I want to retain this site on the Google ...
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What’s up with this 302 redirect to the same URL?

I was scanning my website for links that point to HTTP 301/302/303 redirects when I found a puzzling behavior of the curl utility. Consider the output from the following three commands: $ curl -I ...
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Should we have two copies of the same content or do a redirect?

We are a web app for icons and we've got 2 versions of our app: Old one with icon URLs like http://icons8.com/icons/#!/73/home New one with icon URLs like http://icons8.com/web-app/73/Home Both ...
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What defines a permenant redirect?

I'm a little confused between a 301 redirect, the javascript meta http-equiv="refresh approach and lastly using a 404 which can work out where you wanted to get to and then forward you on. I can see ...
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Lost website rankings as a result of using a 302 redirect instead of a 301

I have an online store and during the last 2 days I noticed a big change in its SERPS for some keywords. The site is indexed in local Google for 5 keywords, and the online store is based on Magento 1....
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Several domains using 302 redirect to our domain

I am wondering what implications we can run into if one of our dealers is redirecting several of their domains using a 302 to our domain. The reason they are doing this is because they want to have ...
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non-cachable Canonical redirect of www to non-www

I know this question is debatable for the whole eternity, and most likely nobody knows the real philosophy of this problem. But I'm trying to solve the problem about 301 and 302 response headers in ...
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How long before legacy 302s are recognised as 301s?

We have some legacy 302 redirects in place on our site that should have always been 301s. We've now changed the redirects to 301s but various SEO tools (and presumably Google) still see the 302 ...
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Should a targeted landing page redirect use 301 or 302 status code

I have a landing page that redirects if the http referer is from a known site using a simple nginx rule: location = /index.html { if ($http_referer ~* (www.)?amazon.com) { return 302 https://...
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Can 302 redirect on WordPress homepage affect SEO?

I manage a website. In order to lead the visitor to the latest post when entering the website, I set a 302 redirect from the homepage URL to the latest post URL. There's 1 to 2 posts a month so the ...
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What is best practice for search engines when a website is under maintenance?

I need around a week to transition a heavily data-driven website from one back end to another. During that time I do plan to attempt to keep some pages live, but they won't all work well or look ...
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Homepage redirect and impact on SEO?

My website is basically a gallery of pictures that I display one at the time (as seperate posts). I have no need for a landing page and so I redirect all users who visit the homepage to a random post:...
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Is a 302 temporary redirect to a 503 maintenance page (on another domain) acceptable for SEO during site maintenance?

I'm working under an IIS environment. I would like to put up a splash page for our site maintenance, however, the splash page (app_offline.htm) has to be served on a separate site, since our ...
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How to redirect old page link to new link when using new CMS for website [duplicate]

We are doing a new website and the current website www.domains.com has been running for almost 3 years and is quite visible on search engines. Now we are working on new website with multilingual ...
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Is a 302 redirect to a random URL from the homepage an SEO problem?

I originally posted this on Stackoverflow, but I believe here is a better place to ask. My web application is very similar to notepad.cc which redirects to a randomly generated URL upon access, e.g. ...
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Session based redirect acceptable for search engines?

We have added a subsite (/usa) to an established global website. This subfolder has been made region specific to USA using google webmaster tools. Now we want visitors from USA to be automatically ...
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302 redirect to homepage from removed pages

I have a site on which, when a content page gets marked as deleted, a 302 redirect to the homepage is performed. So www.mysite.com/page/3424/my-slug 302 redirects to www.mysite.com if that page gets ...
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301 or 302 redirect for mobile/non-mobile pages

I'm setting up redirection for mobile/non-mobile pages. User agent is detected and redirected appropriately, but the ?mobile=1 or ?mobile=0 flag can be used to force a switch. When that flag is used,...
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Google indexed my escaped_fragment pages

My site is a single page web-app. I am following the suggestions based on making AJAX applications crawl-able. My URL looks like this: http://domain.com/#!pages/contactUs My understanding is: ...
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Will a domain(Y) redirected to a maindomain.com/product/ be indexed by SE?

We have several domains with the names of products we sell. The idea is to create mini sites in the future that specialize just in those products, mainly for better placement on SE results pages. As ...
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How to do a cacheable redirection?

When users enter my website example.com, their "preferred" language is detected and they are redirected (using a 301 Moved Permanently redirection) to example.com/en/ (for English), example.com/it/ (...
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How do sites avoid SEO issues and legalities with subdomain unique ids?

I was looking through a few websites recently and noticed a trend I am not sure I understand. Sites are creating unique referral URLs for customers in the form of: http://customname.example.com (If ...
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Finding websites that do a 301/302 redirect to a specific website

Is there a way to find out if a website is receiving redirects from other websites? Please note that I'm not asking about incoming links, but an actual redirect. I don't care how complicated the ...
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302 & 503 for temporary site down page: what to use for 'retry-after'?

If I want to temporary take down a website but the timeframe could be from 1 day to 1-2 weeks, I know that a 302 redirect (to a down.html page for instance) is best in order to preserve the existing ...
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302 or 301 redirect in case where redirect lasts 1-2 months

I have a case where I have a newly built "author site" (promotes the author in general as a speaker and author) which needs to temporarily redirect traffic from the author's "book site" (focuses on ...
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Google and 301/302

we have to solve a problem with Google not correctly indexing our multilanguage sites. We'll redesign our URLs in the future but until then we need some way to help Google find the different language ...
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