REDIRECTION STATUS CODES

Some of the status codes our web browser receives whenever we submit our url are

• 200
• 404
• 301
•  302

The above codes when used effectively helps to make MY SITE RANKS FIRST IN GOOGLE
Code 200:

• You type the url www.abcd1234.com in your browser. The request reaches out to web server which is obliged to check for the availability of the page and to respond to the user. If it finds this page in server it sends a status code 200 to browser intimating the availability of page and then handles the page to the browser which displays the page.

Code 404:

• If the requested page is not available then the web server it responses with status code 404 intimating the unavailability of the requested page.Too much 404 errors wont make MY SITE RANKS FIRST IN GOOGLE

Code 301:

• 301 status code form the web server mean that your page has been permanently redirected to some other page.
• i.e. you type as abcd1234.com in browser. It reaches the browser and there in abcd1234.com a code has been written such that any request that comes to abcd1234.com is permanently redirected to www.abcd1234.com because the page you have requested is no longer available. The page rank and popularity for abcd1234.com would remain same for www.abcd1234.com
• 301 is mainly required to avoid Canonical Issues.
• If you want to change the domain name to some other name use 301 redirection from old domain name to new and so that you can retain page rank
301 when used effectively helps to make MY SITE RANKS FIRST IN GOOGLE

Code 302:

• 302 also mean same as 301.i.e. redirection. But the redirection is temporary
• www.abcd1234.com is temporarily redirected to www.dcab234.com. So it tells the search engines that I am temporally redirecting, so crawl and index both pages. This is used by website to get internal links. It will show the contents available in www.dcab234.com using
Too much 302 redirections wont make MY SITE RANKS FIRST IN GOOGLE


301 / 302 Redirect Warning

Be sure to avoid redirecting large numbers of pages all to one location. This practice is commonly used by spammers and could wind up getting your site into some hot water with Google.
Spammers have been known to create thousands of pages. By generating 1or 2 links to each of these pages, and ensuring that they are spidered and indexed in Google they can then harness the power of redirects to boost site rankings. By taking thousands of pages and redirecting them all to one main page, you would essentially increase the value of the target page and transfer much of the link popularity and boost search engine rankings and thus make MY SITE RANKS FIRST IN GOOGLE
Google is onto this. If you try this, you will likely end up banned, or at least penalized. That said, there may be legitimate reasons why you would drive multiple pages via 301s to another page on your site. If this is the case, be careful so you do not wind up being flagged as spam.