Does external linking with internal link and redirect benefit the target website?

Does external linking with internal link and redirect benefit the target website? - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Does external linking with internal link and redirect benefit the target website? error on your web browser. Problem :

Suppose that website A inserts a link to website B. But it doesn't do it directly. It uses an internal link that redirect to website B. Considering SEO, does this link benefit website B? And what kind of redirect (301, 302 or 303) affects this behavior?

Solution :

Yes, it's benefits to target website, there are already bunch of website using like that.

www.mywebsite.com/redirect/www.someothersite.com

If you insert above link on your website(www.mywebsite.com) and it's redirect to www.someothersite.com then Google will also follow(unless it's not blocked under robots.txt) that redirection just like our browser do, because they use similar kind of webkit to render such a webpages.

Now affliate websites also do that, for example, www.example.com/recommended/some-affliate-webpage/ but they block that recommended directory on their website via robots.txt, so the pagerank will not transfer to that affliate webpage. I don't know why you're asking this question, but if you have some kind of website like that and you don't want to transfer pagerank(Because of link spam) without using nofollow attribution then robots.txt is also better option.

There is also another example of webmasterworld forum. If you check that website then you will know they're not using nofollow attribution, but whenever any user insert the link it converts into internal links and then do redirection, like this https://www.webmasterworld.com/r.cgi?f=30&d=4843612&url=https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-link-no-data-available-23677.html But their cgi directory is blocked under robots.txt so the Pagerank and other link matrics value will not going passed on seroundtable.com website.

Regarding 30X, it all passes pagerank.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the seo, redirects, backlinks error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!