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Google is indexing my 301 redirect pages - How to prevent?

My website has a lot of pages that contain internal links which redirect to external websites.

For example, the content of the page /hello might contain a link to /redirect/123 which returns a 301 HTTP status code with a Location header that points to an external website.

Now, Google has recently started to index tens of thousands of those redirect URLs. This is new though, Google didn't index them before. Any idea on how to fix it?

I previously tried to disallow the pages via robots.txt but that didn't prevent Google from indexes the URLs and Google also doesn't recommend doing that.

I now added a X-Robots-Tag header with the value noindex to the redirects, should that work? Any other ideas?

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