Is it possibly to use anything besides a 302 re-direct when your doing a re-direct for someone to login?
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Hopefully this makes sense. So I am working on a site that uses a 302 re-direct for logins. As in it goes from a profile page to the login via a re-direct, most of the time I see sites use this as a meta refresh, but in this case I wasn't sure. Obviously when I run a crawl diagnostic I'm getting a lot of errors as in over 100. Now I know there is no link juice with this, but I was just wondering what other people thought on using 302's for logins?
Thanks
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Yeah it would take me forever to get our tech people to do that though...I kind of thought it didn't matter, just good to have it confirmed. Thanks.
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Since these parts of the site aren't anything a spider would be seeing anyway, it really doesn't matter how you get people to the next page.
I typically tell spiders not to even go to folders for things like accounts and checkout.
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