does redirects pass pagerank ?

Many have the question whether redirects pass google pagerank?

Answer:

It depends on the type of redirect handled, if its just a normal 302 redirect then it rarely passes pagerank, if the redirect is 301 then it will pass pagerank,

Passing of pagerank depends on the type of redirect used, if the redirects are hidden inside javascript its impossible for the link to pass pagerank, similarly if the links are from folders blocked by robots file then it wont pass pagerank,

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