Can I have multiple 301's when switching to https version

[Shawn124]

Hello,

our programmer recently updated our http version website to https.  Does it matter if we have TWO 301 redirects?  Here is an example:

http://www.colocationamerica.com/dedicated_servers/linux-dedicated.htm

301

https://www.colocationamerica.com/dedicated_servers/linux-dedicated.htm

301

https://www.colocationamerica.com/linux-dedicated-server

We're getting pulled in two different directions.  I read https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo and don't know if 2 301's suffice. Please let me know.  Greatly appreciated!

[DirkC]

You should avoid redirection chains; ask your programmer to redirect http://www.colocationamerica.com/dedicated_servers/linux-dedicated.htm directly to https://www.colocationamerica.com/linux-dedicated-server. There is no need to have the step in between (it's just wasting crawl time of the bots)