Thread:Project:Support desk/How do redirects impact SEO?

Redirect pages are generated with PHP somehow, correct? Wouldn't linking to them instead of to the destination articles directly negatively impact SEO?

Scenario - a popular page on a wiki has three redirects. Throughout the rest of the wiki, only 25% of links to the article are direct. The remaining 75% is distributed evenly between the three redirects. These all point to the same page, but how would a search engine like Google know that? Wouldn't the algorithms they use when looking at internal links yield something less than optimal?

I've been going to great lengths to eliminate the linking of redirects on a wiki of mine, and I was wondering if my efforts were in vain. Thanks in advance, if anyone knows.