301 redirect or 302

[RuudHeijnen]

A client of mine has an international company named www.taxglobalizers.com if you come from Holland they 302 redirect you to the www.taxglobalizers.com/en version of the site and if you come from Holland they redirect with a 302 to www.taxglobalizers.com/nl version.

I think it is best to change this in a 301 redirect. Am i correct in this?

Kind Regards,

Ruud

[Matt-Williamson]

Hi Ruud - a 302 redirect is a temporary redirect whereas a 301 is permanent, so yes you would be better using the 301 redirect as this measure isn't a temporary one from what you have written. Therefore you want search engines to know that the page you are redirecting to is the new location of the one you are directing from.

For more information on redirecting here is the SEOMoz Best Practice link on redirection - http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

The guide highlights how important using the correct redirect is in terms of whether link juice is passed - which we all know is important. 302 redirect doesn't pass any juice but 301 does!

[RuudHeijnen]

Thanks Matt,

This is what i suggested and needed a bit of confirmation because i didn't know if this was the same with location based redirects.