: 301 Redirects non www to www + new url Recently I did some 301 redirections on one of my websites. First I did the non www to www redirect on the .htaccess file. Then I did the list of

@BetL925

I read way back about having multiple redirects and how you can have a maximum of 3 recommended by Search Engines, is just that this was my first time setting up these 2 redirects at the same time. Thank you all for your inputs, I am less worried now for sure.

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@Angela700

Whatever redirection tool you are using is probably bad. webpagetest.org can show you how well your redirects work. Just put in the first page (not the redirected page) and the first entry in the list of URL's the simulated web browser tried accessing will be shown in yellow to indicate a redirect, then the line following it will be the new URL.

Google can also check redirects via webmaster tools. use its crawl feature and if you see a yellow circle then you know its a redirect. Look at the detail pages to see what response it received.

I think apache by default does a maximum of 10 redirects before it resorts to displaying "the document has moved here" in your browser. Also, page-speed insights suggests to keep redirects to no more than one for optimum performance. Anything more, and theres issues.

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@Sarah324

Search engines will follow multiple redirects as situations like yours are not uncommon. So having two redirects won't be an issue. (This also happens when users use URL shortners, or worse, chain them together which can happen when multiple parties want to track users).

But there is an upper limit to how many redirects a search engines will follow. I know an exact amount has never been publicly stated by any of the search engines but they have said there is a limit (at least I remember Matt Cutts saying so). But it certainly is not two.

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