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Fix redirect chains
A redirect chain is a redirect that leads to another redirect. Each hop costs visitors time and search engines crawl budget, and long chains can stop crawlers before they arrive.
Find it
- Crawl the site.
- Click Redirect chain in the issues list, then an address in the table.
- The Redirect chain tab shows each hop with its status code. The Inlinks tab shows which pages still link to the first address.
Fix it
- Change the links to point straight at the final address.
- Point old redirects directly at the final page too, so anyone with an old link takes one hop, not two.
/examples/old-pricing/ /examples/pricing-2025/ 301/examples/old-pricing/ /examples/pricing/ 301Try it yourself
The tutorial crawls our example pages, which have this problem on purpose. Start a crawl at https://crawldude.com/examples/ in CrawlDude to follow along.