Thread: What is the difference between 301 and 302 redirection?

What is the difference between 301 and 302 redirection in SEO? please share with me your views.

What is a 301 redirect?

Sites need to use a 301 redirect when they remove a page from their website. You don’t want to send the search engines or your visitors to a dead page, nor do you want inbound links pointing to that page to go to waste. A 301 redirect will reroute any links (and subsequent link juice) pointing to the dead page to a new page or existing page on your site.


What is a 302 redirect?

A 302 redirect is more of a temporary solution. Think of them like a “We’ll be back in 5 minutes” sign you might see in the window of a local convenience store. You would want to use a 302 redirect for a page that is temporarily unavailable, like if an e-commerce website ran out of stock for one product. You don’t want visitors trying to purchase a product that is unavailable, so you would use a 302 redirect to lead them somewhere else.

301 is a permanent redirection of webpage to avoid duplicate content issue and 302 is temporary one.

301 redirects are permanent. They mean that the page has moved, and they request any search engine or user agent coming to the page to update the URL in their database. This is the most common type of redirect that people should use.






The best reason to use a 302 redirect is to keep your ugly URLs from being indexed permanently by search engines. For example, if your site is built by a database, you might redirect your homepage from a URL like:


http://www.about.com/
To a URL with lots of parameters and session data on it, that would look like this:
http://www.about.com/home/redir/data? »
sessionid=123478&id=3242032474734239437&ts=3339475
When a search engine picks up your home page URL, you want them to recognize that the long URL is the correct page, but not define that URL in their database. In other words, you want the search engine to have "http://www.about.com/" as your URL.If you use a 302 server redirect, you can do that, and most search engines will accept that you're not a spammer.

If you want to redirect your website from older domain to new domain or from http://site.com to http://www.site.com you need to implement this 301 or 302 redirect.

302's are predominately for search engines, as Roy suggested one of the reasons to use them is to ensure SE's don't index ugly URL's, but also to temporarily redirect URL's you expect to reuse so the SE's wont discard/forward the link permanently

Hi,

302 redirect is intended to be used as a

temporary redirect, perhaps one that's used while a a site is under construction or a server is being moved. A 301 is a permanent redirect.

302 is temporary redirect and it is not SEO friendly. While 301 redirect is permanent redirect and it is seo friendly redirect.

Redirect pages of website to new domain or to redirect all website to new domain for this we use 301 redirection

301 uses for permanent redirect and 302 for temporary redirect.

301 - for permanent redirect and 302 - for temporary redirect

301== permanent redirect
302==temp redirect

it so simple

301 is Permanent redirect your website of other url.
and
302 is temporary redirect your website of other website.

It is a connecting site seo aadition.

301 redirect is permanenet redirect of any website/webpage to another website. Insead 302 is a temporary redirect.