Post redirect to topic with 302

[andreadragotta]

Hi,

The post indexed on google use a 302 redirect but for the SEO i think is better a 301.

What do you think about that?

[julianlam]

👍 You are correct, 302 (or 307) does not transfer SEO juice™️

Need to use 301 or 308. Reason why we implemented this using a 302 is in case we mucked up the logic, it would really mess up your cache, but I think we're at the point where we can send a 308 instead 😄

[julianlam]

Mm, upon further research, we cannot do this. The posts permalink redirects you to the topic, but we cannot guarantee with 100% certainty that the post will remain in that topic forever. Forking a topic will move posts to a new topic id, and so a 301 cached in the user's browser will forever send someone to the wrong topic. It is exceedingly difficult to remove a cached 301 from a browser, so it is best not to assume.

However, I will send a 301 for things such as referring to a topic with the incorrect/missing slug, etc...