Dumb SEO Questions

(Entry was posted by Devin Peterson on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, Monday, June 10, 2013).

A re-direct page instead of a direct link?

Here`s a dumb question for you all... I created a product page for a tent on my site and wanted to link to the manufacturers site for "Set-Up Instructions". Normally I just go ahead and do it as I should and all is fine and dandy. However, my dumb brainball got this idea where I would make a new page under my domain and simply redirect it to the manufacturers page, and then change the link on my product page to point to my own page, which redirects to the manufacturer page. Make sense? I know it`s a terrible idea... but what might the results be and is there ANY justification for doing this? Please be gentle on me, I`m experimenting/learning.

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  • Rob Wagner: <br style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px; background-color: #f8f8f8;" />
  • W.E Jonk: I  <br style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px; background-color: #f8f8f8;" /><em style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px; background-color: #f8f8f8;">Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file</em><br style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px; background-color: #f8f8f8;" /><br style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px; background-color: #f8f8f8;" />
  • Devin Peterson: T <br style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px; background-color: #f8f8f8;" /><br style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px; background-color: #f8f8f8;" /><br style="color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px; background-color: #f8f8f8;" />

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, Monday, June 10, 2013).

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