: A 302 redirect tells the visitor the page has temporarily moved. Note the temporarily part. This means that the next time a Google bot visits your site it will try to index the same url

@Kevin317

A 302 redirect tells the visitor the page has temporarily moved. Note the temporarily part. This means that the next time a Google bot visits your site it will try to index the same url again until there is real content (200) or the bot is redirected to the new content (301).

A 301 redirect tells the visitor the page has moved. This will trigger Google bot not to index the url in the future, but store the url the redirect points to as the right page.

302 redirects are ment to be used temporarily.

As for the sitemap question. If you want visitos to end up on a checkout page without having placed any order you can go ahead and add the page to you sitemap. Otherwise leave it out.

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