Magento Base Install 302 from non www to www , problems?
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Using our crawl diagnostics report I am seeing a 302 redirect (temporary) from mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com. It is on an installation of magento with no modifications to the htaccess.
This seems problematic, should I change to a 301 in .htaccess?
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Yes. A 302 is really only acceptable to use after a POST, where you're redirecting the user (no engine will ever submit a form). It's considered a "temporary" redirect and, in the distant past, Google would actually have problems with it.
A 301 should be used for any other kind of redirect, especially when redirecting the non-www to www.
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