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    Important pages are being 302 redirected, then 301 redirected to support language versions. Is this affecting negatively the linking juice distribution of our domain?

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    • Ty1986
      Ty1986 last edited by

      Hi mozzers,

      Prior to my arrival, in order to support and better serve the international locations and offering multiple language versions of the same content the company decided to restructure its URLs focused on locale urls. We went from
      https://example.com/subfolder to

      https://example.com/us/en-us/new-subfolder (US)
      https://example.com/ca/en-us/new-subfolder (CAN)
      https://example.com/ca/fr-ca/new-subfolder (CAN)
      https://example.com/de/en-us/new-subfolder (Ger)
      https://example.com/de/de-de/new-subfolder (Ger)

      This had implications on redirecting old URLs to new ones. All important URLs such as https://example.com/subfolder were
      302 redirected to https://example.com/us/en-us/subfolder and then 301 redirected to the final URL.

      According to the devs:  If you change the translation to the page or locale, then a 302 needs to happen so you see the same version of the page in German or French, then a 301 redirect happens from the legacy URL to the new version. If the 302 redirect was skipped, then you would only be able to one version/language of that page. 
      For instance: 
      http://example.com/subfolder/state/city --> 301 redirect to  {LEGACY URL]
      https://example.com/subfolder/state/city --> 302 redirect to 
      https://example.com/en-us/subfolder/state/city  --> 301 redirect to 
      https://example.com/us/en-us/new-subfolder/city-state       [NEW URL]

      I am wondering if these 302s are hurting our link juice distribution or that is completely fine since they all end up as a 301 redirect?

      Thanks.

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      • jasongmcmahon
        jasongmcmahon last edited by

        I'm can't fully understand why you would use 302 redirections, these are meant to be for tempory redirects only.

        https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

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