Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site?

Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site? How about how many redirects I can chain together?
Matt Cutts, Bay Area, California

Other things to watch out for with chained redirects:
- Avoid infinite loops.
- Browsers may also have redirect limits, and these limits can vary by browser, so multiple redirects may affect regular users in addition to Googlebot.

[globalduniya]

Matt i am little bit confused. As per your video, we should only use 301 permanant redirect when we want to redirect the page permanantly from one website to another. my question is can we use 301, we older URL for the page is changed to new url follow.

[familybizguy]

Thanks Matt!

I want to commend your approach to going back and taking more of an overview in addressing some of the topics lately. It's Extremely Helpful for us webmasters who are developing more experience.

[Drostvideo]

I'm converting a static site of 150 pages to a CMS site so will need to create 150 301 redirects. My question...is there any easier way to achieve this?

[JerTurowetz]

These videos are great for me as a full stack dev as well as a resource for website owners at any level of expertise. I really appreciate that you make them.

[ryuk]

Your explanation is very clear (and English isn't my native language), thank you !

[GetFoundOnlineTips]

I love the webmaster videos. Keep those videos coming! An ingenious invention.

Thanks for the explanation about 301 redirects. As a webmaster it is much quicker to just create a 301 redirect with all old URL's to the new root page of a new site. You explained exactly why it's better to redirect on page level (page by page). That should keep everyone awake.

[sherrypaintings]

Your tutorials are addictive and highly helpful. Thanks a lot for making all of these videos. :)

[mikerobinson]

Jilly, that's because it completely depends on your application. Every language (like PHP, ASP, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc) would have their own way to do it and every web server (e.g. Apache, Nginx, IIS, etc) would have their own ways to do it as well. Most likely though if you are moving from one domain to another, you would want to do a redirect at the server level. Just Google it.

[Paddy_Mac]

I know this has been up for a while now but thanks for posting! Still informative, still great!

[JustinSnider]

Matt cracks me up. I want to see him do standup! Thanks for the info, btw.

[FetchandcompareCoUk]

Hi, I watched a video on multiple 301 redirects and the answer was it was ok if consolidating brands/domains to one site, what about a change in structure to a site to offer price comparison, so 1000 x 301 redirects from old page to new page within same site and domain, is this ok?

[tph]

When you upgrade a website that had over 100, 000 pages...how can you automate the 301's to go to the correct pages? Completely new nav structure

[ElGordoWWVITUT]

Hi Matt, thanks for the interesting Video. But on you answer comes a new question to me.

What is when i have a Wordpress blog and i change links from articles. Because the old ones ar very bad written.

As example:

I will change the permalink to young-cats.html and make a 301 redirect from the old page to the new page.

My question is. Can i do this with this page and all other pages without loosing PR and rankings from my pages?

[agroat]

Thanks, makes sense. I had always wondered about the 301 redirect hopping.

[RemiTurcotte]

very useful to know ... 4-5 hops... got it.

[rickdellagatta]

Great video thank you. I do have one question. I have 3 sites that provide the same services but in different geographical areas. The page structure is the basically the same. i want to move them all permanently to 1 site . would there be any negative effect of redirecting (page to page as in the video) several sites to the 1 new site?

Thank you.

[joetek]

Thanks Matt!

I would guess that URL shorteners would also count as hops. You'd often see on Twitter, a t.co link (shortened automatically by twitter) pointing to say, bit.ly (automatically shortened by site links or twitter clients) before jumping to the final URL. Sometimes that final url is bounced again through an analytics tool to measure clicks (like hootsuite), and you're already at 4 with very little effort.

Does Google recognize that shorteners like t.co or bit.ly are different?

[philipperoy]

Hopefully not a silly question, but I guess the next logical step in the question is "hoe long do I wait until google knows that Page A was redirected to page B and be able to delete that from the htaccess file?"

My train of thinking being that down the road, when you once again change that page (as for me, my portfolio is always rotating), you are then not creating a long chain of 301s...

[familybizguy]

@dcnopp1 301-Redirects are Permanent - You use them when you are moving a page online permanently. 302 redirects are TEMPORARY. You use them when you need to temporarily move a page.

[CoolModifiedCars]

All right Matt!!! I asked this question 2 days before you posted the Video....Where's my Credit eh??? Its ok...but this does answer my question as no one else in the Universe could.