Alot of 302 Redirects, what to do?
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I'm currently auditing my companies website, and we encountered thousands of 302 redirects. The 302 pages are products page, which is a question and answer module at the bottom of each products page. What best practice should I do to get rid of the 302 redirects? add those pages to the .robots.txt? Or do individually and add a no index? This would help boost our rankings up correct?
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Hey guys thanks for the reply back to go more in-depth about my problem. We have a lot of 302 redirects on pages from discontinued products. We're getting ding by Google because of duplicate content or broken pages. My theory is applying a no index on our robot.txt files to stop Google crawls to go on those pages. Would Google still crawl on the links embedded on that no index section? Or would Google's crawls completely ignore that part and don't follow any links?
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Like everyone else said, we need more information to help you. Just to let you know that Google tend to look at a 302 the same way of a 301 if the 302 is "permanent". So you're saying the a "plugin" is redirecting the user to a product page with a 302?
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We need more information so we will try to help you
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Can you provide a little more information? Where s the Q&A section at the bottom of your product pages redirecting to? Is there any way to update the source of the redirect to be the redirect [end] URL? If so, no redirects would be needed at all. If that's not an option, why not just change all the 302's to 301's? If you really don't want that content crawled or indexed, then yes, you could block via robots.txt or a no index tag, but you may need to use the remove URL feature in Google Search Console to get any URLS that have already been indexed out of Google. If you can provide more details maybe I could answer more completely.
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