Is using many redirect links for a single product good for SEO?

Technical Q&A
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Topic summary

A website owner accidentally created approximately 3,700 redirect links for products due to a data entry error—an employee repeatedly saved new URLs while editing products, resulting in multiple URLs redirecting to single product pages.

Current approach:

  • Created HTML sitemap pages containing the old redirect URLs
  • Submitting these sitemaps to Google for crawling
  • Questioning whether this strategy benefits SEO

Community response:

  • One respondent suggests that if redirects are already functioning properly, creating sitemaps with old URLs is unnecessary
  • Requests a specific example showing the old URL → new URL redirect pattern to provide more targeted advice

Status: The discussion remains open with the original poster yet to provide the requested redirect example. The effectiveness and SEO implications of intentionally crawling thousands of redirect URLs through HTML sitemaps has not been fully addressed.

Summarized with AI on November 22. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi

On my website www.diamondforgood.com there are about 3700 product redirect links. By mistake while doing data entry for products my employee was saving the URL as and when he was editing the product. So now we have about many URL for single product which redirect to Final Product page.

For SEO purpose, i have created htmlsitemap Pages which has old URL links on the pages. And i then have google crawl this htmlsitemap pages. Is that good?

For example : htmlsitemap pages are here.

https://diamondforgood.com/pages/htmlsitemap7

https://diamondforgood.com/pages/htmlsitemap6

https://diamondforgood.com/pages/htmlsitemap5

https://diamondforgood.com/pages/htmlsitemap4

https://diamondforgood.com/pages/htmlsitemap3

https://diamondforgood.com/pages/htmlsitemap2

https://diamondforgood.com/pages/sitemap1

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Hi @diamondforgood

If the redirects already work you don’t need to create any sitemap with the old URL’s.

Could you post an example of such a redirect (old url, new url)?

Thanks,

C.