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Solve Redirect Chains
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I've gotten a few Redirect Issues that involve Redirect Chains, with the https:// version redirecting to the www. version and then redirecting to the right URL.
Here is an example:
I've tried setting a direct redirect between the first and the last URL, but WordPress doesn't seem to allow that (it's overwritten). I've also tried checking the internal links to make sure that none of the links are the first one. They don't seem to be there.
Does anyone have any tips on solving these Redirect Chains?
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Even if you've fixed the internal link, the old URL will still be periodically crawled by Google and other crawlers (including Moz!), so it's worth fixing.
The issue may be that you're using WordPress to handle a redirect between two different subdomains, where WordPress is hosted in just one of them. Ideally you would address this at server level.
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