Find Redirect Chains Without a 200 Pound Monthly Tool
What Is a Redirect Chain and Why Does It Matter
A redirect chain is when URL A redirects to URL B which redirects to URL C instead of A redirecting directly to C. Every hop costs approximately 15 percent link equity loss, 100 to 500ms of additional load time and wasted crawl budget. A four-hop chain can pass around 60 percent of the link equity that a direct 301 would pass.
Redirect chains happen most commonly after site migrations and CMS changes. If your most important pages are sitting at the end of a redirect chain you are losing ranking potential that cost you real money to build.
How Our Redirect Checker Works
Our pay-as-you-go redirect checker follows any URL through its full chain showing every hop, status code and final destination. Run it on your most important URLs and on any URL that has been through a site migration.
You do not need a 200 pound per month SEO platform to find redirect chains. Run the check, see the results, fix the chains, confirm they are resolved.
How to Fix Redirect Chains
Update each redirect to point directly to the final destination. Fix A to D directly removing the intermediate hops. Also check for 302 temporary redirects that should be 301 permanent redirects — temporary redirects do not pass full link equity. Any redirect in place for more than a few days should be a 301.
Fix Internal Links Pointing to Chained URLs
After fixing your redirect chains check your internal links. Pages on your site that link to old chained URLs are still passing less equity than they should even after the chain is fixed. Run our pay-as-you-go internal links tool to find every internal link pointing to a redirected URL and update them to point directly to the final destination. Read our guide to fixing orphan pages and internal links for less than 1 pound for the full internal linking workflow.
After fixing chains and internal links run a full pay-as-you-go site audit to confirm all crawlability issues are resolved.
How Much Does It Cost
Redirect checker runs cost from 8p. Credits never expire. Learn how SEO credits work at AIWebPageSEO before you top up.
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