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What are benefits of 301 & 302 redirection in SEO? How does this help out.?

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As asked and as , and touched on, choosing the correct redirect is more than a syntax decision — it’s about indexing intent, user experience, and long‑term signal transfer. The practical gaps in the replies below are: how to implement redirects safely, how long to keep them, how to test them, and what to avoid during migrations.

For site or URL moves use server‑side permanent redirects (301 or 308) and update your sitemaps and Search Console settings; keep redirects in place for an extended period (Google recommends keeping them at least a year) and avoid redirecting many old URLs to an irrelevant destination such as the homepage. See Google’s site‑move guidance for the recommended workflow. (developers.google.com)
Site Moves and Migrations

Avoid redirect chains and loops: map old→new directly, not old→A→B→new. Test redirects at scale (command line or scripts) and spot-check with Search Console’s URL Inspection so Google sees the final target quickly. Update internal links and reach out to high‑value external referrers to cut out redirects where possible. (developers.google.com)

Quick test (one‑line curl):

curl -I -L -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} %{url_effective}\n" https://example.com/oldpage

Use temporary redirects (302/307) only for genuinely short experiments (A/B tests, brief maintenance). Prefer server‑side redirects over meta‑refresh or JavaScript redirects since server headers are the clearest signal to crawlers. When preserving HTTP method matters (POST→POST), use 307/308 per the HTTP spec. For authoritative details on redirect behavior and HTTP semantics, see Google’s redirect docs and the HTTP RFC. (developers.google.com)

Practical checklist summary: choose the technically correct 3xx code for intent; implement server‑side; avoid chains; update sitemaps and internal links; test with curl and Search Console; keep redirects in place while signals migrate.

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A 301 redirect also known as permanent redirect should be put in place to permanently redirect a page.
A 302 redirect also known as temporary redirect should be put in place if you want to redirect your site visitors into another webpage but you plan to bring the redirected page back after sometime.

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As per moz, 301 (Permanent Redirection) passes 90 to 99% link juice to redirected page from the current page. 302 refers temporary redirection, it never passes link value to redirected page from the current page.

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Status 301 means that the page is moved permanently to a new location. The user or browser should not attempt to request the original location but use the new location from now on
Status 302 means that the page is temporarily located somewhere else, and the user or browser should continue requesting the original url.
When a search engine spider finds 301 status code, it understands that this webpage no longer exists, it searches for location header in response pick the new URL and replace the indexed URL with the new one and also transfer pagerank.
When a search engine spider finds 302 status for a webpage, it will only redirect temporarily to the new location and crawl both of the pages. The old webpage URL still exists in the search engine database and it always attempts to request the old location and crawl it.

You can get more details here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

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