Redirect Chains and Crawl Budget: The Real Cost

On a site with millions of URLs, a two-hop redirect chain doubles the crawl cost per page. For small sites it doesn't matter; for large ones it compounds fast.

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How Googlebot counts redirects

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When chains cost crawl budget

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Finding chains with log analysis

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Flattening chains to one hop

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Tooling recommendations

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