Max Number of 301 Redirections?

[Tintanus]

Hi, We currently made a re-design of a website and we changed all our urls to make them shorter. I made more than 300 permanent redirections but plenty more are needed since WMT is showing some more 404s from old urls that I hadn't seen because they were dynamic.

The question is, please, is there a limit? I think we have more than 600 already. We don't want to create a php commando to redirect all the old ones to our home, we are redirecting them to their correspondent url.

By the way, Im doing them with the 301 method in .htaccess.

Thanks in advance.

[hectormainar]

There is a limit of redirections which Google and the browsers follow in chain: you cannot create a loop, or make non-sense continuous 301 redirections.

But there is not a limit on the number of pages you redirect: in any redesign, all your similar pages (for example, product pages), will create a redirection. 600 is not a big number of products for an ecommerce site, or a big number or posts for a blog... Don't worry.

Matt Cutts speaks exactly about your doubt here.

[Alick300]

Hi,

There is no limit on number of pages you want to redirect on any website.

Thanks.

[seovp]

Hi,

There isn't a limit to the amount of 301 redirects you can have on your site. 300-600 redirects might be seen as pretty small to a large ecommerce site that has to redirect 1,000s of urls.

Thanks

[Tintanus]

Thank you all ! Some of the urls didn't have a correspondent new one, so I 301 it to the home page, is that bad?