: What redirection should I use whether I am not sure it is temporary or permanent? I know that 301 redirection for permanent redirection. 302 for temporary redirects. I want to redirect author

@Gonzalez347

As you already know 301 is permanent redirection and 302
temporary redirection.
Now comparing both of these 301 in most cases is important for
indexing in search engines as their crawlers take this in account and
transfer Page rank when using 301.
However if your redirection is for short period of time or you
plan to reverse it in future the main issue with 301 redirect is
that browser will cache the redirection even if you disabled the
redirection from the server level. It is always better to use 302 redirect if
you are enabling the redirection for a short period of time.


With that being said you want to experiment for sometime whether you like the results of redirection or not. In that case I would suggest going for temporary redirect for the experimental time period (a couple of days) and then change it to permanent redirect if you are happy with the results.

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