Rails app returning 302 redirects, is that bad?

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Maybe a bit off-topic here, but I have a site “mysite.com” and an
action that will take “mysite.com/keyword” and find the most
appropriate page for that keyword. I did it as a way to handle old
bookmarks that I can’t control, but still provide content that’s
useful (instead of 404 error, for example).

Server returns the correct page with a 302 redirect.

I think this behavior would happen elsewhere in an application as
well.

Any thoughts on the use of actions catching keywords to serve the
right page, and the impact of the resulting 302 on SEO?

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jiblethead wrote in post #999139:

Maybe a bit off-topic here, but I have a site “mysite.com” and an
action that will take “mysite.com/keyword” and find the most
appropriate page for that keyword. I did it as a way to handle old
bookmarks that I can’t control, but still provide content that’s
useful (instead of 404 error, for example).

Server returns the correct page with a 302 redirect.

I think this behavior would happen elsewhere in an application as
well.

I’m pretty sure that anywhere redirect_to is used in it sends a 302
redirect by default. You can also specify other redirect status codes in
the options.

Any thoughts on the use of actions catching keywords to serve the
right page, and the impact of the resulting 302 on SEO?

I don’t know the impact on SEO, however 302 - Found status codes are
very common on the web so I would expect Google’s engine to be smart
enough to deal with them. I’m not the right person to ask though.