Understanding the Impact of Redirect Chains on Website Performance and SEO

by Radhika Pawar creative content writer

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can be a tricky process with so many components to factor in. One complement you may not have heard about before is website redirects, and their impact on the performance of your website.

 

Redirect chains tend to be more significant if they entail multiple pages or organizations. In this blog post, we examine what it entails and how to prevent redirect chains destroying SEO before things get out of hand. Keep reading to find out more!

 

Notable Causes of Redirect Chains

You’d be surprised to learn that redirect chains are in most cases unintentional. After all, they are barely noticeable. At times you may deploy a redirect without knowing the existence of a previous redirect. For this reason, you end up creating a redirect chain. Here are the notable causes of redirect chains.

 

Due to Content Updates

It may come to be while changing backlinks when you update your page’s content. In this scenario, you usually reach out to the website’s owner of the backlink provider. The essence of contacting them is to ask them to remove or redirect the link to the new URL. But as your site grows and contents change, it becomes more complicated for you to contact them repeatedly. This could be the underlying reason behind your redirect chains issue.

 

Due to URL Specifics

It happens when a business grows, and you totally forget to fix minor issues related to URL specifics. This, in turn, leads to more significant redirect issues in the future. No wonder you should always learn to exercise caution when it comes to URL specifics since it could prove costly in the long run.

 

Does Redirect Chains Impact SEO?

The simplest answer to this question is yes! Redirect chains tend to have strong negative impact on your SEO efforts. To give you a tip of the iceberg, it leads to a bad user experience. Keep in mind user experience is something search engines care about while updating algorithms. Another reasons is that it hinders the crawl ability of Google bots.

 

While there is nothing wrong with having a single redirect, too many can be bad for SEO. After all, they make it difficult for crawlers to index the webpage. At times, Googlebot would stop crawling due to a large number of redirects. These redirects can also significantly slow down the loading speed of the website. 

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