Hello, I was wondering if Google would understand a 302 redirect going to a 301 redirect or if it would be better to have a 301 to a 301.. I know the ideal situation would be to have just one 301 redirect, but as of right now, that isn't possible. Any clarification on this matter would be helpful. I have found some information where people suggest to "avoid" doing a 301 to a 301 if possible, but I haven't been able to find any information regarding a 302 to a 301.. Thanks, Z
301 to 301 will work assuming they are both permanent and they go to different pages for each redirect. Unless the first redirect is only temporary, search engines wont store that as the new page, and it will keep getting redirected back each time. Ideally, you will want to work on getting rid of one, some crawlers will assume a redirect loop after being bounced twice and stop indexing that portion of the site.
So, you have page A with a 301 (perm) redirection to page B already set up. You now want to redirect Page C to page A with either a 301 (perm) or 302 (temp) redirection? Given the 301 that already exists and therefore page A is deindexed why aren't you redirecting directly to page B?
Basically, there is an affiliate id url.. domain.com/default.asp?=xxx=blah and I am redirecting with a 302 to a storage.asp page that determines what information to store (if any) etc.. then, that page has a 301 that takes you to domain.com/blah.asp .. Ideally, it would be nice to get rid of the storage.asp page (which I am going to try and work on).. but in the mean time, would it be better to structure it as two 301's instead of how it is right now. Thanks, Z
It only makes a difference if your wanting the first page to be retained in the search engines index or not