Best practice to 301 NON-WWW pages?

[bridhard8]

Hi Guys,

Have a site which has 302 redirects installed for pages like:

https://domain.com.au/ to https://www.domain.com.au/ (302 redirect)

Is it worth changing the redirect to a 301? This is a large site, like 10,000 pages.

Also does anyone know how can this be done via Magento?

Cheers

[mememax]

Agree with Kevin's question, but 99% of the time you want to use a 301.

302 is causing google to index the new page without dropping the old one. This means that now google is seeing 2 pages with identical content.

While this is not an issue per se, it may dilute a lot your seo value as it's split across two pages. Moreover, sometimes Google may decide to serve the old page and not the new one as it may have backlinks pointing to it.

I strongly suggest you update your redirect rule to 301. I don't know specifically about Magento but there are many discussions out there. Here the code you may include in your .HTACCESS file.
*NOTE: do not touch the htaccess file if you don't know what you're doing or you can break the whole site

<code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]</code>

you may want to change the rewrite rule to https://www. if your site is secure.

[KevinBudzynski]

Why are you using 302's? Is this temporary? If permanent, use 301's.

Just tweak the .htaccess file and push non-www to www and change Magneto's base url in system => configuration.