302 query - can someone help

[Jacksons_Fencing]

If I were to put 302s on several reasonably ranked landing pages to drive more traffic/conversions for a period of one week to a particular page, would the pages with 302s drop from their positions in the SERPS? And is this a bad idea? I want to try and drive some conversions over the next month for a particular page…

Thanks for your help!

[OlegKorneitchouk]

In theory... 302 = temporary redirect so Google will continue to revisit the original URL. The pages may lose their rankings (they would likely be replaced by the URLs you will be redirecting to) while the redirect is up. Once you revert the redirect, so should the rankings after the changes are picked up by crawlers.

In practice, your new urls may not show up in serps and your old redirects may not return to their original rankings.

[ThomasHarvey]

Funnily, Dr. Pete did a whiteboard friday on this today: https://moz.com/blog/arent-301s-302s-canonicals-all-basically-the-same-whiteboard-friday

[Jacksons_Fencing]

All makes sense

Thanks very much