Glossary
What Is a Redirect Chain?
A redirect chain is a sequence of two or more redirects a single URL passes through before reaching its final destination, wasting crawl budget and losing link value at each hop.
Redirect chains commonly accumulate silently over multiple migrations — a URL redirected in 2021 gets redirected again in 2023, and nobody flattens the chain in between.
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