INTRODUCTION?| In the hierarchy of website concerns, HTTP status codes rarely make the slide deck. Designers fuss over branding; copywriters polish taglines; performance teams shave milliseconds from load times. Yet each request that reaches your server ends in a three-digit verdict—200, 301, 404, 503—that can push a page toward the

You ask, we answer. No jargon marathons, no robot voice—just quick, human-sounding explanations of why those little three-digit numbers can make or break your search traffic. The basics Q1. Remind me: what’s an HTTP status code, in plain English? Think of it as a postcard from your server that says, “Here’s what happened with that UR