302 to 301 redirect confirmation
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Hi guys, Fairly sure of the answer from what I've read so far, but I just wanted to doublecheck I have it right. Page A gets a significant amount of referring, followed traffic, and also ranks in Google. Page A uses a 302 redirect to Page B (on a completely different domain), which means that 0% of Page A's link juice is being passed on to Page B. If I were to change the 302 redirect to a 301 redirect, then the link juice passed on to Page A from the followed, referring traffic will be (mostly) passed on to Page B. Is that correct? Cheers, Jez
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Thanks guys
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Jez,
You are completely correct. Change the redirect to 301 and watch the link juice flow!
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A 302 redirect is a temporary redirect and passes 0% link juice, where as a 301 redirect is permanent, so passes around 90-99% of link juice, so you are correct in thinking you should go for the 301 to make the link juice flow.
For further info see here - www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection
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