Gateway Pages

Search Engines, particularly Google, do not like "Gateway Pages". Internet users do not like "Gateway Pages" as they are a waste of time and just involve more clicks for a visitor to them.

There was a time in the past when it was common to "trade" links. "Link to my page on your website and I will post a link on mine to yours". This has been frowned upon by Google for a long time and it is my understanding that the current algorithm will penalise sites and pages that do this.

On closer inspection of User Engagment Events,

Qualify your outbound links to Google

This is something that I need to pay more attention to.

This means adding rel="nofollow", rel="sponsored" or rel="ugc" to the anchor link tags.

As far as I know the qualification is only relevant to anchors and redirections in JavaScript don't have to be qualified.