SEO and unique IDs in urls

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Published on 2012-03-26T10:56:35Z Indexed on 2012/03/26 11:43 UTC
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I have a web site who's home page is at

http://domain.com

when a new user first hits the web site I'm creating a unique id of 5 chars for them (for example 'abcde' and redirecting them to http://domain.com/abcde so they can later bookmark and return to their workspace.

My question is what's the best approach for SEO purposes, I need the main url domain.com to be indexed but google will also get the redirect and will not index the main page.

I know about canonical urls, but this applies only when the domain.com url does not redirect

also should I use 301 or 302 code in the redirect ?

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