: Can too many 301 redirects cause a DNS error? For a site http://imageocd.com that I just set up I initially spelled the category "automobiles" as "autimobiles"... I know it's rediculous. I

@Tiffany637

You could maybe consider using phpmyadmin to do a SQL update to the misspelled category in your db? Then no redirect necessary...

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@Yeniel560

DNS errors occur before the server is even hit, so redirects wouldn't affect this. I checked your site on a DNS checker here and didn't see any problems. It was probably just a temporary issue.

There are no problems with the number of redirects, in terms of how many pages redirect to a second page. The only problem occur when you chain redirects, e.g. Page A > B > C > D - Google will usually give up after 4 or 5. But you are not doing this so no need to worry. See this webmaster help video for more information.

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@Heady270

There wouldn't be a problem with any number of 301s technically, except for network noise and lag it creates, etc. - plus extra load on the machine.

Googlebot only goes so far before quitting though and just as it would only scrape so far deep into a site, I don't think it would traverse that many 301s. Very likely it would think at a certain point that it was an infinite redirect and quit.

If it's not an option to fix the typo, it would be a better solution to create a symbolic link in the filesystem that sends the traffic over to the other directory. Not sure what os you're running on your server. On linux it's: ln -s target linkname

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