: New URL after doing redirect using 301 If we do a redirect 301, one my expired job to another URL in my site, Google will record this redirection. But what if this original job URL appears

@Angela700

no, google will not remember redirection. Every time a googlebot does it's run (periodically on known content, or via "add url" suggestion) and sees some URL, it will try to fetch it.

as a result it can get:


"200" (with a content) and then index that content
"404" or "410" (not found) in which case it will remove (after some time and more retries to make sure it's not a mistake) page from cache
"301" (redirect), in which case it will simply fetch new page pointed by redirect URL and repeat whole process.


So, no, it's not a problem. If later you want to reuse/reactivate that page, you simply remove 301 redirect and create content - googlebot will pick it up as soon as it finds the page - via link on some other page, or if page is (unlikely) not linked at all, via manual add url submission on google

Check google own answer (and/or verify yourself on unimportant test page) for reference on feasibility of reversing 301 redirects...

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