I went CDN and now Roger is ticked off?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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