If you have a website, the last thing you want is a 404 error page when a page link cannot be found. Not only is it bad for your Google search rankings, but it is ...

This is a great question, not just because the answer is “it depends,” but because it’s one many SEO professionals seem to be confused about. Before we dive in, we need to understand the differences ...

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Google’s John Mueller offered an interesting explanation of how a 301 redirect will pass 100% of PageRank. The SEO community has known since about 2013 that there was essentially no PageRank loss ...

Google's Gary Illyes confirms that any 301, 302, 3xx redirect does not lose any PageRank value. Gary Illyes, a Google webmaster trends analyst, said yesterday that using a 301, 302 or 30x redirect of ...

On a webmaster video hangout yesterday, Google trends analyst John Mueller strongly recommended that people migrating from HTTP to HTTPS do so with 301 redirects on a per-URL basis. He said you should ...

Google's John Mueller has said many times that 302s vs 301s are pretty much the same thing in terms of how Google treats redirects. He often said not to worry about using a 302 over a 301 or the other ...

Google's John Mueller in a Google+ hangout this morning said at the 22:15 mark into the video that Google may decide that at some point, your 302 temporary redirects should be 301 permanent redirects.