Google handles redirects

[GilbertZ]

Someone asked about this recently...it seems to me that google now takes a redirect and uses the original page that points to a redirect as an inbound link to the redirected page and ignores the dynamic in between page...

The reason I feel this is true is that yahoo cat pages show as backlinx and they use redirects.

Am I correct or incorrect?

[WebGuerrilla]

I think you are making the assumption that Googlebot is given the same links that a human sees. I doubt that's the case.

[GilbertZ]

ah

[bcc1234]

I think when google gets a 301 response code, it follows the location and passes the pr to the target url.
I'm not sure about 302 though.

[jamesyap]

I need the answer too about 302 redirect, but Gilbertz give a very good point on Yahoo linking. Yahoo uses redirect in the directory and is counted as link. And they shouldn't be 301.

So 302 redirect works! There are many affiliate redirect that also count as vote to the advertiser. This again shows that redirect do pass PR.

Anyone has more convicing suggestion?