We have 302 redirect links on our forum that point to individual posts. Should we add a rel="nofollow" to these links?

[Bjork]

Moz is showing us that we have a HUGE amount of 302 redirects. These are coming from our community forum.

1. Forum URL: https://www.foodbloggerpro.com/community/
2. Example thread URL: https://www.foodbloggerpro.com/community/viewthread/322/
3. Example URL that points to a specific reply: https://www.foodbloggerpro.com/community/viewreply/1582/
4. The above link 302 redirects to this URL: https://www.foodbloggerpro.com/community/viewthread/322/#1582

My two questions would be:

1. Do you think we should we add rel=nofollow to the specific reply URLs?
2. If possible, should we make those redirects 301 vs. 302?

Screencast attached.

nofollow_302.mp4

[Nobody1565908128979]

Hey there,

It really depends, do you want to remove the links from Google ? if so then a 301 redirect will passes 90-99% of power / link juice to the URL you point it to plus tells Google this URL no longer exist at that location and therefore drops it from its index. If you do not want to drop the URLS within the index then a 302 is a good way to temporarily keep them there if you are going to reinstate them.