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      • DanDeceuster
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        If URL A redirects to URL B which redirects to URL C which redirects to URL D which redirects to URL E finally redirects to URL F, then Google isn't too happy about that. Just have URL A, B, C, D and E all redirect to URL F directly.

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            DanDeceuster @WearYouWant last edited by

            I'm not sure what you mean exactly. You aren't changing the destination URL's here, so nothing in the index should change. Just have any URL that redirects only redirect to a destination URL, not another redirecting URL.

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                • Everett
                  Everett last edited by

                  Your question is:
                  "When i already change all of them, How much effect to ours old index ?"

                  I think there are some translation issues here since English is not your first language. If I understand your question correctly...

                  If you have changed the redirects so URL-a.html now 301 redirects to URL-b.html then URL-a.html should eventually drop out of the index. All of its page-rank will then be given to URL-b.html, which should eventually begin ranking near where URL-a.html once was. Some page-rank may be lost in a redirect, but not much.

                  Often when Google says there are too many redirects it isn't because you are redirecting to different pages (e.g. URL-a.html goes to URL-b.html goes to URL-c.html). Instead, it is often because the redirects are set up in a kind of loop so there never really is an end to it. One example would be if http://yoursite.com redirected to http://www.yoursite.com/, which redirected to http://yoursite.com. Just make sure that is not the problem.

                  You should check your redirects using an HTTP status code tool like these:

                  http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/
                  http://httpstatus.io/

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