Using 302 redirects for affiliate links
 

I am interested in centralizing some of my affiliate links with a few easy to read domains and using 302 redirects to send the traffic to the relevant 'FREE PORN IN YOUR MAIL' programs.

The reasons for this are:
1. I think that surfers dont want to click on an affiliate link that looks like this:
http://www.examplebucks.com/AAA/EEE/...49830847u32094. They are more likely to follow a simple link like "FREEPAYSITEEXAMPLE.com".
2. This allows me to change the sponsor easily without having to update all my sites.

Is there any downside to doing this?
a) does google dislike this?
b) do the sponsors dislike this?

sigh bump !

google will scrape the target as the link and prob count it as duplicate content.

ie. if i make www.coollink.com 302 to bangbros with my affil id , google will see it as on coollink.com but will count the page as duplicate content. If you are going to use specific domains just for forwarding you might wanna think about going blackhat so you can still use the pages for serp

lets say i have gfystuff.com and its a porn site and i want to have banners to bangbros but without the banners being counted as an outbound link i could make a redirect at gfystuff.com/bangbros and send the traffic there, but instead of using a 302 redirect setup a nice bangbros page then hide a javascript on it to redirect to bangbros if no referrer is set ( i.e. anything but googlebot etc will be redirected )

so to answer your question simply. if you wanna stay whitehat , stay with 302's on inbound links, if you are going to do outbound link then a 302 it prob won't help you much

either way google already see's the link to sponsor as outbound link to duplicate content, so its prob better to make it an inbound link to duplicate content rather than an outbound link to duplicate content