.htaccess redirect chains
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At item 4 in the post at http://moz.com/blog/htaccess-file-snippets-for-seos the author recommends combining .htaccess redirects to avoid chaining redirects.
I'd be obliged if someone could expand on:
1. What he means by chained redirects
2. How to combine the redirects per his recommendation
Cheers.
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Terrific, thanks!
And combining the redirects quoted in that post . . . how should that be done correctly?
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sweet and simply.... good example!
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Chain redirects just mean that a page redirects once, and then redirects again to something else.
An example might be a site that was originally in html, then php, and now has no file extension.
If the redirects were left in order each time a site was upgraded, you might go from page.html to page.php to page.
The easiest way to clean them up is to make sure all redirects go to the current version of the page.
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