What's the Difference Between a 301 and 302 Redirect?

you have a website you have a domain name once it's after while you decide that you don't like that domain name what do you do hey everyone I'm Neil Patel and today I'm going to be explaining how you can use 301 and 302 redirect as well as what's the difference between them so first off if you have a domain name let's say you started out with ABCD comm and you decided you know what I hate these four-letter domain names they're too long I actually won a two-letter domain name I just want a be calm if you decide that it's too long a year to change from ABCD calm to a be calm you want to do what's called a 301 redirect a 301 redirect tells Google that hey we've changed names we have a new domain name take all our existing rankings from this site and transfer it over to this new site and they do that it roughly takes anywhere from a few weeks to sometimes up to a few months to fully kick in but when you do a 301 redirect you're telling Google we've permanently moved think of it as changing an address when you move locations a new apartment a new home you're telling the postal service that hey I change locations and now they forward all mail to your new address the same thing happens when use a 301 redirect a 302 redirect on the other hand is telling Google hey we temporarily change locations think of it as you're going to summer home and you're staying there so you want your mail forwarded there for a few months and then you're going to go back to your original home that's the same way it works on the web with a 302 redirect in which let's say you offer winter products and summer products so your domain name is ABCD comm slash summer and you decide that hey summer's over we're now going to shift into winter products well you can do a 302 redirect saying hey we've moved ABCD comm slash summer to ABCD comm slash winter that tells Google hey temporarily send all the traffic in the rankings etc - ABCD comm slash winter now in the eyes of Google they said recently that they start looking at 301 redirects and 302 redirects the same but not all search engines do this if you do a permanent move use a 301 and if you're doing a temporary move use a 302 redirect you can do this for whole domain names and you can do this for web URLs as well so it could be web pages on your site subdirectory subdomains etc if you're going to do this I could say hey here's how to do it but I don't recommend that you actually do the redirects yourself unless you're technical I did this with my own website neil patel comm slash BR i made a mistake with my 301 redirects and you know what i eventually fixed it but my traffic didn't bounce back it went to 90% of where it was it took roughly three months to recuperate most the traffic the point I'm trying to make is one little glitch or mess-up can really hurt your traffic go to up were calm and on that website you can find developers for 100 bucks 200 bucks that will do this change for you