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302 Redirect

A temporary redirect that sends users and crawlers to another URL while signaling that the original URL should remain the primary page.

A 302 redirect is a temporary redirect from one URL to another. It tells search engines that the move is not permanent and that the original URL should generally remain indexed as the canonical destination.

302 redirects are useful for short-term campaigns, A/B tests, geolocation routing, maintenance pages, or temporarily unavailable content. They are not ideal for permanent URL changes because they can preserve the old URL in search results.

Use a 301 redirect for permanent moves and a 302 only when you expect to restore the original URL. As with all redirects, avoid chains, loops, and internal links that point to redirected URLs.