: Can 302 redirect on WordPress homepage affect SEO? I manage a website. In order to lead the visitor to the latest post when entering the website, I set a 302 redirect from the homepage URL

@Megan663

The 302 redirect may be confusing Google. It should be possible to get your site indexed even with a occasionally changing 302 redirect for a home page. To do so:


Make sure each of your posts links to the other posts. WordPress usually including "next/previous article" links as well as links to tags and categories. The idea is that once Googlebot finds one page, it should be able to get to all the rest.
Submit an XML sitemap to Google. XML sitemaps help when a site is hard for Googlebot to crawl. There are WordPress plugins that can do this for you.
Try crawling your site yourself. You often don't know why Google isn't crawling your site until you do this to reveal problems. There are plenty of crawlers out there. I tend to use wget in recursive mode on the command line.
Make sure some other sites link to some of your articles. If you have another site, or friends that you ask for a link, those are great ways to get Google to notice your site. It only takes a couple inbound links for Google to realize that your site has enough value to index.

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@Ann8826881

Yes it will.

There are many situations where a 302 is appropriate. It should consider How often have you temporarily moved a page. SEO specialists mostly don’t use 302 redirects when fixing the on-site qualities of a website. Instead, a 302 redirect is often used when they want to test a new page for client feedback but they don’t want to damage or change the old page’s rankings and history.

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