Temporary Redirect Warnings

[bobbabuoy]

How big of an seo issue is this.  I provide downloadable results for fitness events and after I pull the data I "redirect" it to a plain text file that is actually created on the fly.  Is this a problem and, if so, is there a modification that I can implement to avoid having my site suffer for this?

Thanks~

[DeptAgency]

Hi Bob,

If I understand correctly you have some pages on your website that generate some report in some other place and immediately afterwards redirect themselves to this new report.

I think it depends on how important these pages are whether or not this is a problem. If for example a landing page returns a 302 status, that´s a problem. However, if the page generating the report and redirecting itself does not need to be indexed it´s not really an isseu.

You might want to add a rel="nofollow" to the buttons and links that point to the page generating the text reports.