Hello everyone this is Kevin with Ballen Brands and today I’m going to discuss HTTP status codes and how they relate to search engine optimization when a website visitor or search engine crawlers visits a page on your website the server sends out a three digit Status Code in response today we’ll look at four of the most important of these codes 200 301 404 and 410 200 status code the 200 status code is the most common and tells web browsers and search engines that the requested page was successfully found all of your existing web pages will return this code 301 status code the 301 status code tells web browsers and search engines that the requested page has been permanently moved to a new location this status code is important for SEO if you ever change the URL of an existing page or move the page to a new location be sure to set up a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new URL remember to only use a 301 redirect when the old URL and new URL have identical or closely related content a common mistake is believing that all of your deleted pages should...