Technical SEO FAQ · Redirects, Status Codes, Sitemaps & Robots
How do redirect chains affect SEO and crawling?
A chain such as:
A → B → C → D
creates unnecessary requests and increases complexity.
A cleaner implementation is:
A → D
Google's crawl-budget documentation recommends avoiding long redirect chains.
During a migration, crawl the old URL inventory and verify that redirects resolve directly to final destinations.
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