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Old October 3rd, 2008, 08:02 AM
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Split test on a ranking url

Let's say I have this url: /malta and it's ranking 1st for 'malta' on Google.

I want to make a split test on this page to try different layouts. Set up a 302 redirect from /malta to /malta/a or /malta/b and split traffic equally to monitor user behaviour.

With a 302 redirect I understand Google will keep /malta in the index but will crawl /a or /b and extract that content (however won't index these urls). Can a 302 redirect hurt rankings of /malta if used for this reason?

Any insights or maybe better solutions, will be more than appreciated.

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Let's say I have this url: /malta and it's ranking 1st for 'malta' on Google.

I want to make a split test on this page to try different layouts. Set up a 302 redirect from /malta to /malta/a or /malta/b and split traffic equally to monitor user behaviour.

With a 302 redirect I understand Google will keep /malta in the index but will crawl /a or /b and extract that content (however won't index these urls). Can a 302 redirect hurt rankings of /malta if used for this reason?

Any insights or maybe better solutions, will be more than appreciated.


Possibly it is because if you are setting up pages with substantially duplicate content and with 302 redirects which is not advisable in search engines.
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