I went CDN and now Roger is ticked off?
-
I have optimized my blogs (for speed) and it was a huge success.
One site that was loading around the 7-8 second mark now actually has more content including a walk on video and my best load time is a .42 seconds with both sides giving me low to mid 90s.
Roger has been pretty quiet lately but now as the CDN requires 302 redirects to function with dynamic content, I have hundreds and hundreds of 302 warnings.
I did not realize that site speed was weighted so heavy but 3 of my blogs have gone from PR1 to PR3 overnight without any other changes at all.
I know Google will penalize a site with too many 302 but I am pretty sure that until you can afford a memcache system this is standard practice. Just wanted to make sure that I do not have another HARD lesson ahead.
Thanks
-
Hi David,
It's odd that Roger would pick up on so many 302s. When I ran a crawl of your site with Screaming Frog and the only 302s were for static assets, which I don't think roger would be crawling anyway. What sort of URLs are you getting the 302s for? If you think these are errors, feel free to contact the help team (help@seomoz.org) and see if they can help you sort this out.
You could most likely rewrite whatever Wordpress plugin to return a 301 instead of a 302 (or have a wordpress php developer do it for you - it should be a pretty simple job) but overall, it probably won't make much a huge difference in your SEO.
But in general, you want to minimize your redirects when speeding up your site. For example, SEOmoz uses a CDN, but each static resource is linked directly to the CDN server, without the redirect.
For my own wordpress sites, I use WP Super Cache and CloudFlare. Both are free and have sped up my sites amazingly well. In particular, I'm a huge fan of CloudFlare, given the extra security measures. Well worth checking out.
-
Thank You,
The site that is springing the most 302 is http://86theprint.com which I had running on a full CDN (w3 Total Cache) but it broke the site so I have tried a plugin that uses S3 buckets...
As to not waste any of your time, although it is awesome you are willing to look, all I really need to know is that the 302's must go. If that is true then it is what it is and I will get it back to localhost files and start over. Thank You Very Much.
Yeager
I also have several 302 from QuickResponseQR.com. Everything on this site is on the CDN, all cnamed through the sub domain cdn.quickresponseqr.com & cdn2.quickresponseqr.com. CDN is Cloudfront.
-
Hey David
can you post a link to your page and highlight some CDN content?
Lots of sites use a CDN for assets and don't have these kind of issues and certainly don't use a 302 system to generate the URL.
If you look at Unbounce and their noobs guide the main site runs on www.unbounce.com but the assets are on what I assume to be their CDN which runs on assets.unbounce.com.
If you were to look at one of the common cloud vendors like say rackspace.co.uk then you would just get a web ready URL that returns your content via a standard HTTP 200 OK response from the most local cache of the content.
I worked on a site recently that used rackspace and it seemed like a pretty solid solution and certainly there were no 302 redirects.
Post a link though and happy to take a quick look and see if I can't feed back a little more else maybe consider using a different CDN!
Cheers
Marcus
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
How to prevent duplicat content issue and indexing sub domain [ CDN sub domain]?
Hello! I wish to use CDN server to optimize my page loading time ( MaxCDN). I have to use a custom CDN sub domain to use these services. If I added a sub domain, then my blog has two URL (http://www.example.com and http://cdn.example.com) for the same content. I have more than 450 blog posts. I think it will cause duplicate content issues. In this situation, what is the best method (rel=canonical or no-indexing) to prevent duplicate content issue and prevent indexing sub domain? And take the optimum service of the CDN. Thanks!
Technical SEO | | Godad0 -
Campaign shows 5,000 warnings from shared database feed, made pages no-follow and no-index, are we OK now?
One of our campaigns shows 5,000 warnings for dup content, meta descriptions, and urls. This is from a xml database feed that is shared throughout the industry. We made the pages no-follow and no-index, but on Moz crawl still get the warnings. No warnings on Webmaster tools. Should we ignore these warnings and are we OK now, or is there more work to do?
Technical SEO | | geilt0 -
Have a client that migrated their site; went live with noindex/nofollow and for last two SEOMoz crawls only getting one page crawled. In contrast, G.A. is crawling all pages. Just wait?
Client site is 15 + pages. New site had noindex/nofollow removed prior to last two crawls.
Technical SEO | | alankoen1230 -
301 redirects tanked our site on google - what now?
We had several hundred old pages on the site with duplicate content and new pages with fresh info on the same topics. So I redirected the old pages to the new pages. Next day, plop, we're dumped off google for almost every keyword. Dang I thought they didn't want duplicate content and old funky pages. What did I do wrong and what can I do to fix it? Thanks so much for anyone who can share their expertise. Jean
Technical SEO | | JeanYates0 -
My site was hammered by this last update -- I'm freaking out -- what now
I looked at my seomoz report yesterday, almost all my money keywords went to hell. When I was looking at the graph for one of my keywords it looked so depressing I don't think I can look at it again. The funny thing is that my competitors have bunch of low quality links on unrelated websites and they haven't been touched. How to approach this problem, I'm scared to do anything at this point.
Technical SEO | | Tolod0 -
Ranked on Page 1, now between page 40-50... Please help!
My site, http://goo.gl/h0igI was ranking on page one for many of our biggest keywords. All of a sudden, we completely fell off. I believe I'm down somewhere between page 40-50. I have no warning or error messages in webmaster tools. Can anyone please help me identify what the problem is? This is completely unexpected and I don't know how to fix it... Thanks in advance
Technical SEO | | Prime850 -
Recently revamped site structure - now not even ranking for brand name, but lots of content - what happened? (Yup, the site has been crawled a few times since) Any ideas? Did I make a classic mistake? Any advise appreciated :)
I've completely disappeared off Google - what happened? Even my brand name keyword does not bring up my website - I feel lost, confused and baffled on what my next steps should be. ANY advice would be welcome, since there's no going back to the way the site was set up.
Technical SEO | | JeanieWalker0 -
My site went from #3 to #2 to #1 to #10 in Google.nl
I have a site which has been #3 in Google.nl for a certain long tail phrase for pretty long. After I optimized my site some more for this specific phrase I went to #2 and eventually some weeks later to #1. But when I finally became #1, the celebration was short, as two weeks thereafter I dropped to #10 where I have been stuck for several weeks now... Can this be some sort of over optimization penalty? I personally don't think so as I hardly created links with the anchor, or a variation of it. On page also seems pretty much in order to me. Also, the site is on a exact match domain and used to rank for it, but doesn't even rank in the top #100 anymore. Any advice? PS: I rather don't publish the URL, but if anyone can help out I have no problem sending it in a private message, including the phrase in question.
Technical SEO | | VisualSense0