: Ending a 302 redirect and its effect on Pagerank Please imagine the following scenario: abc.com → 302 (temporary) redirect to def.com After 6 months, we no longer use def.com, so discard the

@Merenda212

In this situation, def.com would eventually disappear from the index.

Depending on how long you wait, though, abc.com might not show back up again. Google will generally crawl a 302 redirect much less often than a regularly changing page.

If you did exactly what you are proposing, it's theoretically possible that def.com, abc.com and xyz.com could be out of the index for an amount of time.

What I would recommend doing at this stage, to cover all your bases, is to:


301 from abc.com to xyz.com
301 from def.com to xyz.com (i.e. keep def.com registered and active for a bit)


This is because you have no way of knowing whether Google has started directly crawling def.com, and it'd be a pity to effectively tell Google the site is offline until it happens to find it again via one of the other two URLs.

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