Can too many redirects from a single URL have a negative effect on crawling?

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Discusses whether excessive URL redirects negatively affect search engine crawling and indexing.

Linked by 4 independent sites, 1 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including moz.com, redirect-checker.org, evergreen.media.