301 or 302 - www.yoursite.com/uk/content
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If your website CMS forces you to redirect from the homepage should it be a 301 or 302
Example includes www.direct.gov.uk which 302's it
My view is that it should be a 302 in this instance and almost all others should be a 301 - the reason for this is that you want the www.direct.gov.uk to be the "primary" and one that is displayed in Google, whereas for anything else you want the URL of the location.
Yes I know that ideally you don't have any redirection at all...
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I'm 50c each way to tell teh truth, the more i think about it
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I'm 50c eatch way to tell teh truth, the more i think about it
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You can ask - but we don't know ... it was a "CMS thing" we aren't the developers on the site, it sparked an internal discussion and we were all basing our arguments on if you can't then can we fix the redirect (and then should we).
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Well you can 301, but one day you may go back to domianname.com and then you will need to redirect back.
I am not too clear also . But I assume if you have a link already to "/"and you 302, then "/" will keep rank. but if you get a new link, then the chances are it willbe to "/newpage.html"
all in all, i would go with the 302
Can i ask why you can not use "/"
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Shame that link isn't actually too clear - came across that when researching it, but the argument from the team here is that then no value is passed to that new page....?
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I thnk you are correct
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-discussing-302-redirects/
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