{"id":2288,"date":"2026-08-31T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/en\/?page_id=2288"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:19:02","slug":"redirect-chain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa\/redirect-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0633\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0629 \u0625\u0639\u0627\u062f\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0648\u062c\u064a\u0647"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2288\" class=\"elementor elementor-2288\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-t1600001 ilm-article elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"t1600001\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-t1600002\" data-id=\"t1600002\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-t1600003 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"t1600003\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"ilm-back\" href=\"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa\/\">\u2190 Back to the glossary<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-t1600004 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"t1600004\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u0633\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0629 \u0625\u0639\u0627\u062f\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0648\u062c\u064a\u0647<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-t1600005 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"t1600005\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"ilm-termmeta\">3 minute read \u00b7 Updated 28 August 2026<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-t1600006 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"t1600006\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ilm-def\"><span class=\"k\">Definition<\/span><p>A redirect chain is a URL that redirects to a URL that redirects again \u2014 two or more hops between the address requested and the page finally delivered.<\/p><p>Each hop costs a request, a little latency, and a little of the value passing through. When you change a slug, update the <a href=\"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa\/internal-link\/\">\u0631\u0648\u0627\u0628\u0637 \u062f\u0627\u062e\u0644\u064a\u0629<\/a> pointing at it rather than relying on the redirect alone.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-t1600010 ilm-article elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"t1600010\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-t1600011\" data-id=\"t1600011\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-t1600012 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"t1600012\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">How chains form<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-t1600013 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"t1600013\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Nobody builds one deliberately. They accumulate in layers, and the classic example needs no bad decisions at all:<\/p><ul><li>The site moves to HTTPS. <code>http:\/\/<\/code> now redirects to <code>https:\/\/<\/code>.<\/li><li>It drops the <code>www<\/code>. Another hop.<\/li><li>A post is renamed two years later. A third.<\/li><li>The category structure changes. A fourth.<\/li><\/ul><p>Each step was correct in isolation. Together they mean a request for the original address travels through four redirects before anything is delivered. A <em>redirect loop<\/em> is the pathological version: A points to B, B points back to A, and the browser gives up.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-t1600014 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"t1600014\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What it actually costs<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-t1600015 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"t1600015\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Less than the folklore suggests, but not nothing. Google has said 301 redirects pass essentially all <a href=\"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa\/link-equity\/\">link equity<\/a> and that it will follow up to about five hops in a single pass. Beyond that it stops and comes back later, if at all.<\/p><p>The real costs are more mundane: <strong>latency<\/strong> \u2014 every hop is a full round trip, felt most on mobile connections; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa\/crawl-budget\/\">crawl budget<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 each hop is a request returning no content; and <strong>fragility<\/strong> \u2014 a chain of four breaks the moment one <a href=\"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b0%d8%a7-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a8%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%b7\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"146\" title=\"\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0648\u0627\u0628\u0637 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0627\u062e\u0644\u064a\u0629 \u0645\u0642\u0627\u0628\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0648\u0627\u0628\u0637 \u0627\u0644\u062e\u0644\u0641\u064a\u0629\">\u0631\u0627\u0628\u0637<\/a> in it is removed by someone who did not know the rest existed.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-t1600016 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"t1600016\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The fix, in order<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-t1600017 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"t1600017\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>First, update the internal links.<\/strong> This is the step people skip. A redirect exists for visitors arriving from outside \u2014 old bookmarks, external links, search results. Your own pages should point at the final URL directly. An internal link that goes through a redirect is a link you control pointing at an address you know is wrong.<\/p><p><strong>Then flatten the chain.<\/strong> Rewrite every rule so each old URL points straight at the final destination, not at the next old URL. Keep the intermediate rules \u2014 removing them breaks anything still requesting those addresses.<\/p><p><strong>Then check for loops.<\/strong> Any crawler reports them; they are always a bug.<\/p><p>Screaming Frog lists chains under <em>Reports \u203a Redirects \u203a Redirect Chains<\/em>, with the full hop sequence and the final status code.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-19140c0 ilm-article elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"19140c0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ec3d83c\" data-id=\"ec3d83c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b02066a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b02066a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">301, 302 and the rest<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dc0da0e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dc0da0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>301<\/strong> means permanent: the resource has moved and the old address should be forgotten. This is the right code for a renamed slug or a merged page.<\/p><p><strong>302<\/strong> means temporary: keep the old address, the move is provisional. Used by mistake for permanent moves more often than any other status code, usually because a plugin defaults to it.<\/p><p><strong>307<\/strong> is the strict HTTP\/1.1 temporary redirect; <strong>308<\/strong> the permanent equivalent that preserves the request method. Both are correct and rarely needed by hand.<\/p><p>Google says it treats 301 and 302 similarly for ranking purposes once it works out the intent, but the codes still say different things to browsers and caches \u2014 and a permanent move announced as temporary keeps the old URL alive in indexes far longer than necessary.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-06e7562 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"06e7562\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Redirect, canonical or 410?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3f18ec elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d3f18ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Three tools, three situations, and choosing wrongly creates the chains in the first place.<\/p><ul><li><strong>Redirect<\/strong> when the old URL should stop working and the content lives elsewhere. Renamed page, merged article, restructured category.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa\/canonical-tag\/\">Canonical<\/a><\/strong> when both URLs must keep working but only one should be indexed. Filtered listings, print views, tracking parameters.<\/li><li><strong>410 Gone<\/strong> when the content is deleted and has no successor. Redirecting a removed page to the homepage is worse than a clean 410: it produces a soft 404 and tells visitors nothing.<\/li><\/ul><p>The common error is redirecting everything to the homepage during a migration. It looks tidy in the redirect table and destroys the relevance that made those URLs worth anything.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25770f7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"25770f7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Chains that hide in plain sight<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-056feda elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"056feda\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Some chains are invisible in a normal crawl because they only appear for particular requests.<\/p><p><strong>Trailing slashes.<\/strong> A server that redirects <code>\/page<\/code> to <code>\/page\/<\/code> adds a hop to every internal link written without the slash. Pick one form and use it everywhere, including in the <a href=\"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa\/xml-sitemap\/\">sitemap<\/a>.<\/p><p><strong>Language prefixes.<\/strong> Multilingual plugins frequently redirect the bare path to the language-prefixed one, so <code>\/page\/<\/code> becomes <code>\/en\/page\/<\/code>. Every internal link written without the prefix pays for it.<\/p><p><strong>Uppercase.<\/strong> URLs are case-sensitive; a link with a stray capital hits a redirect or a 404 depending on the server.<\/p><p>All three are cheap to fix and easy to reintroduce, which is why they are worth checking after any migration.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8a03775 ilm-article elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8a03775\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a67c3df\" data-id=\"a67c3df\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8d1b03 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"f8d1b03\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ilm-rel\"><span class=\"k\">Related terms<\/span><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa\/canonical-tag\/\">\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0644\u0627\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0627\u0646\u0648\u0646\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa\/link-equity\/\">Link equity<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa\/crawl-budget\/\">\u0645\u064a\u0632\u0627\u0646\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0632\u062d\u0641<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/internal-links-manager.com\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%aa\/internal-link\/\">\u0631\u0627\u0628\u0637 \u062f\u0627\u062e\u0644\u064a<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Back to the glossary Redirect chain 3 minute read \u00b7 Updated 28 August 2026 Definition A redirect chain is a URL that redirects to a URL that redirects again \u2014 two or more hops between the address requested and the page finally delivered. 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