302 to 301 redirect confirmation

[jez000]

Hi guys, Fairly sure of the answer from what I've read so far, but I just wanted to doublecheck I have it right. Page A gets a significant amount of referring, followed traffic, and also ranks in Google. Page A uses a 302 redirect to Page B (on a completely different domain), which means that 0% of Page A's link juice is being passed on to Page B. If I were to change the 302 redirect to a 301 redirect, then the link juice passed on to Page A from the followed, referring traffic will be (mostly) passed on to Page B. Is that correct? Cheers, Jez

[Matt-Williamson]

A 302 redirect is a temporary redirect and passes 0% link juice, where as a 301 redirect is permanent, so passes around 90-99% of link juice, so you are correct in thinking you should go for the 301 to make the link juice flow.

For further info see here - www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

[DaveGerecht]

Jez,

You are completely correct. Change the redirect to 301 and watch the link juice flow!

[jez000]

Thanks guys