301 redirects instead of 302 redirects for better SEO
 

Hello,

I am tracking clicks to the various links (external or internal) in my website as follows:

http://www.mysitename.com/clicksout....ersitename.com - outgoing links

http://www.mysitename.com/clicksin.p...ersitename.com - incoming links

In the clicksin.php & clicksout.php, I have used the below php function to track the URL and to store the clicks and the url details in a table for reporting
header("Location: http://www.example.com/");

I was told that the above tracking links are 302 redirects which is bad for SEO.

Please can someone let me know how I can use 301 redirects in place of it?
Basically I want to capture the clicks on ougoing links and clicks on incoming links.

Appreciate help in this regard. Thanks.

You can set the header and response code in one header() call. And be sure to end the script right after this as well

Hello Analogpoint and Dismounted,

Thank you for your inputs on the 301 redirects.

I change my redirects from 302 to 301 and it helped.