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How do I go about changing a 302 redirect to a 301.
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Hello Friends! Thanks for viewing my question. Ok,My question today is How do I go about redirecting a 302 link to a 301 link. I understand the benefits of doing this as far as link juice and how the Search Engines views the two Re-Directs. I am wanting to know where I would start to do this. Thank you in advance for any help or suggestions!
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I was afraid it would be in the technical area instead of a magical button solving my problems. I'm not exactly sure how I am doing the redirect, however I do believe it is ASP so I will give it a try. Thanks for the Answer!
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How are you doing your 302 redirect?
If it's htaccess, either just change 302 to 301

So if it looks like this - redirect 302 /oldpage http://example.com/page - just change the number
If it's applied by a rule add R=301
RewriteRule ^oldpage(.*)$ /page [L,R=301]
If it's php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://example.com/page");
exit();
?>if it's asp
<%
response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
response.addheader "location", "http://example.com/page"
response.end
%>Double check those though, end of the day here, getting tired

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