Removing Multiple 301 Redirects

[talltrees]

During my last redesign (and migration to Drupal) some of the updated SEO friendly url's on the new site were misspelled. Rather than updating the 301 redirects to point to the correct page the developer just added an additional 301 redirect.

So it was redirected like this website.com/oldpage (301 to) website.com/new-paige (301 to) website.com/new-page

Instead of

website.com/oldpage (301 to) website.com/new-page

I'll be finishing another redesign and updating to https soon, should I remove the redirect to the misspelled domain and just have one 301 from the original page? These multiple redirects have been up for over a year.

Thanks for any specific advice!

[GastonRiera]

Hi Robert!

The safest route here seems to be just adding an extra 301 to the https version. This will gather all the links out there. If you remove some of the middle links and that just happen to be a link to your site you'll be losing a possible good link.

Google understands well up to 4-5 hops. So I think that you'll be ok with just these 3 hops.

To back what i'm saying: Matt Cutts said it in these videos:
Can too many redirects from a single URL have a negative effect on crawling? Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site?

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR.