Wordpress Socialize Plugin giving me 400+ 302s. Should I be concerned?

[IoanSaid]

Looking at my report and saw I had over 400 302s. When I looked where they came from, it seems it's from a plugin called socialize sending stuff to Facebook.

Does it matter?

[Metropolis]

Hi Kane,

I just had the same issue as Ioan Said with Twitter and Facebook social login buttons on each article. The content crawl showed that my website has 84 000 links which are 302 links. My concern is that I have only 53 000 links showing 200 response code.

In this case I have a feeling that those 302 might harm my site.

Total website links: 14 1000.

Any Ideas how to deal with this?

[KaneJamison]

Hi there,

302 redirects are only an issue for links pointing to your own site. So, if you have an internal link going through a 302 redirect, that's bad. If you have a link from a blogger who mentioned you're website that is 302ing, that's bad.

If you have links on your website that are sent through a 302 redirect to another website (especially a large one like Facebook), that's not a big deal and can be disregarded.

[Thos003]

I think it's always a bad idea to link to a 400 page. So if your site is producing links to these 400 pages then yes, that is a problem. I believe 300s are less troublesome, but if it were my site then I would eliminate as many of them as I could.

[IoanSaid]

My website is quite established.

I just have loads of 302s and the links are all similar to this:

http://celynnenphotography.co.uk/index.php?social_controller=auth&social_action=authorize&key=facebook&post_id=2111

http://celynnenphotography.co.uk/index.php?social_controller=auth&social_action=authorize&key=facebook&post_id=1832

http://celynnenphotography.co.uk/index.php?social_controller=auth&social_action=authorize&key=facebook&post_id=1850

And they all direct to:

https://sopresto.socialize-this.com/facebook/authorize/?req_perms=publish_stream&v=2&id=6acb34e591&response_url=http%3A%2F%2Fcelynnenphotography.photographyblogsites.com%2Findex.php%3Fsocial_controller%3Dauth%26social_action%3Dauthorized%26salt%3D5f0400db5dda670e8325036d3dd708da%26p%3D1400

[artdivision]

It depends from which pages they are coming from. 302 redirects do not pass any link juice to the new URL as Google treats is as "temporary" and not "permanet" (which is 301).

Is your site newly launched? Can you give a bit more information? You might be suffering from a 302 redirect infinite loop