Hi . I have a question regarding a surge in 302 temporary direct errors following reactivation of my site reviews.

[mrkingsley]

Hi. i submitted the following question to the support team at volusion regarding a large number of 302 temporary redirects on the SEOMOZ crawl of following the reactivation of product reviews on my website. Here is the question and their response. Any opinions.  Thanks

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Hi Howard,

Looking at the link you have referenced, this page is unable to be accessed unless you are logged into your site, so SEO isn't applicable for the page.

We would not be able to change the 302 redirect for this page.

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.

Thanks,
Meredith G.
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| 4 days ago (102hrs ago) [8/19/2012 10:06:00 AM] by Customer | |

Hi . I had a report of 302 temporary redirects when SEO moz did a simulated site crawl.

This is an example of the address of one of the many 302 temporary redirect errors which I think consume link juice or have some type of negative effect on SEO.

http://www.mrgrabbar.com/reviewhelpful.asp?ProductCode=GT100&ID=562&yes=yes

Since it is a live link I cannot seem to redirect it with a 301 redirect in the redirect manager. Is there anything I can do to handle these temporary redirects. They only are appearing now since I reactivated my reviews and I am concerned about the SEO effect that this may soon have.

[BenRWoodard]

I have a client in Volusion as well.  You need to go into the link on the page for leaving a review and add a "rel="nofollow" " tag to the link.  This will solve your 302's.

I did the same thing to the "email a friend" option on the product pages and it solved that issue.

[mrkingsley]

Thanks Ben.  I am also looking into the possibilty of using the "noindex,follow" tag or the "canonical" meta tag. What is your opinion on these and would these meta tags be added in the meta tags overide section.  I actually do not see a way to add meta tags for the review helpful page within volusion. I do see a way that a met tag overide can be added for email a friend.

Thanks,

Howard

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Without having much direct knowledge of Volusion, Ben appears to be correct. Since the links are being generated by the "leave a review" links, you don't really want these followed anyway.

Where you are thinking of adding the "NOINDEX, FOLLOW" or canonical tags?

[mrkingsley]

Thanks Cyrus. I thought that I had read somewhere that the nofollow tag would consume link juice in that the flow of link juice would be interrupted and not circulate back through the site whereas the noindex follow would prevent indexing but conserve link juice.

I do not see a way to be able add tags to these particular pages in volusion and support at volusion seems to think these pages will not be crawled anyway

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Well, the nofollow tag doesn't consume any link juice, but it will save your "crawl allowance" - this means you want to cut back on Google crawling unnecessary links and pages. And since all those "review" links point to a login page, this can be seen as a low-value page.

[Pablostevens71]

I've got the same problem with the 302 redirects and the "review helpful?" issue in Volusion.  Did you figure out how to make these links "no follow" in Volusion?

[ryanforrest]

Hi Ben,Where do you add the 'rel="nofollow"'? I can't seem to find it.