A redirect chain is created when we change the name and/or working name of a product or category ... correct?

Is there a way to eliminate the redirect chains? Like by deleting the offending item and re-creating it?

We've been running our sites through Website Audit software to identify and correct a variety of issues, particularly those created by the merchant's editing or creation of product/category descriptions.

Thanks

Tim Gorski

Hi Tim

I don't see that changing a product or category name would cause any particular issues to be honest. Deleting and setting it up again under a different name would have an effect on the stats I guess.

Andy

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Thanks Andy ... but am I correct in thinking that the cart automatically creates these redirects?

In this particular case, we had a number of categories in the root, then the client wanted less real estate for the links so we made them sub-categories of "online shopping", then we noticed that website traffic was severely affected, so we moved them back into the root, then the audit software suggested having more than 2 redirect chains could cause issues: "In certain cases, either due to bad .htaccess file setup or due to some deliberately taken measures, a page may end up with having two or more redirects. It is strongly recommended to avoid such redirect chains longer than 2 redirects since they may be the reason of multiple issues:" like slow loading page, higher bounce rate because of that, and the suggestion that it can adversely affect indexing by Google.

Please confirm whether or not the cart automatically creates redirects, and if there's anything that can be done to minimize multiple redirects (other than "not changing category or product names).

Tim Gorski

The cart wouldn't create redirects, it just returns the new hierarchy set in the database.

Andy

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