[Q]Internal site redirects Pro's / Cons?

So i want to add some posts on my site that will pass google/Yoast and will rank the keywords I'm going for.
But I want the visitor to be redirected to my internal affiliate pages (on same site as padding posts). When thy click on link in search engine.
Will google still crawl the padding posts and rank them ?
Will internal redirects do my site ranking any harm ?

ATuringtest said:

Will google still crawl the padding posts and rank them ?

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What is a padding post? Never heard that term.

When google will recrawl the source page they will choose your redirect permalink as canonical.
You will lose ranking for the keywords after Google recrawls your site and detect the redirect changes.

SirLouen said:

What is a padding post? Never heard that term.

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You create a post that has synonyms, related keywords, without the ranked keyword so it doesn't look like your stuffing.
But you don't want spend hours on it so you just make one that passes Yoast but the content isn't 100% like the money posts. (sort of)
Point that internally to money page with link.

ATuringtest said:

So i want to add some posts on my site that will pass google/Yoast and will rank the keywords I'm going for.
But I want the visitor to be redirected to my internal affiliate pages (on same site as padding posts). When thy click on link in search engine.
Will google still crawl the padding posts and rank them ?
Will internal redirects do my site ranking any harm ?

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Assuming your pages are ranked now and you are not redirecting your viewers now; Unless you use some cloaking mechanism, upon the next recrawl google will follow the redirects like a normal user, figure out that it's no longer the same page, and then derank you for the existing keywords.


The new pages you redirect to may get ranked for different keywords, but you prolly don't want that.