CMS Redirect Issues

[Inmyshoes]

Hi, I wanted to see if anyone out there had run into a similar CMS problem and how they solved it.

So here is the issue:

Our CMS generates dynamic urls that do not follow the structure of the site, so for example our url appear as.

http://www.oursite.com/oursite/v24/index.cvn

Our marketing managers do not want people to type in this url so the would prefer to redirect via a 301:
http://www.oursite.com/
to
http://www.oursite.com/oursite/v24/index.cvn

My question does this effect the trust that search engines have for our site?

The second part is we want to send out promotions and track how each piece did as a traffic driver. So an e-mail, directmail, and magazine article will all list different urls.

Example:
http://www.oursite.com/e-mail-promotion
http://www.oursite.com/directmail-promotion

However our CMS only offers a "url mapping" feature so:

http://www.oursite.com/e-mail-promotion
redirects to via a 302
http://www.oursite.com/oursite/v24/index.cvn?id=10007&p_navID=4

Question: Is this bad for SEO I thought a 302 was not as trust worthy as a 301? Should they be 301's or is this not a problem?

Any help/advice would be appreciated let me know if you need more specifics.

Thanks

[khalidh]

prefer to redirect via a 301:
http://www.oursite.com/
to
http://www.oursite.com/oursite/v24/index.cvn

My question does this effect the trust that search engines have for our site?



That will not have an impact for your SEO. We have hunderds of pages on our site that are mapped the same way.

Khalid

[Inmyshoes]

Thanks Khalid,

So you do not feel that it's worth doing a permanent redirect it's okay to have these 302's? Do most CMS just offer temporary redirects and not permanent?