How many 301 redirect will be safe to use?

[lumiux]

Hi,
I have been doing my link building and have already done one 301 redirect to my domain. Today i found another domain which is good and fully relevant to my niche. I am willing to redirect it to my domain. Is it safe to use two redirect to a domain?

Your thoughts? Please advice

 

[starki]

There is no general number that's safe, but two is fine. I certainly wouldn't use a dozen. Depends a bit on the age of your site, the size, where you redirect the domain to (hompage, individual article, category).

 

[SuperSonicProxy]

Technically, there is no limit as to your number of 301 redirects but doing too many may drag your server. So better keep your redirects to a minimum.

 

[lumiux]

There is no general number that's safe, but two is fine. I certainly wouldn't use a dozen. Depends a bit on the age of your site, the size, where you redirect the domain to (hompage, individual article, category).

The expired domain i got in fully relevant to my website and i am doing normal domain level 301 redirect to my HOME page without any hosting. Is that fine? or should i host it, Install wordpress and redirect to individual pages or do it via .htaccess file? I am really confused. Any advice will really help a lot.

 

[AngelSeo]

The expired domain i got in fully relevant to my website and i am doing normal domain level 301 redirect to my HOME page without any hosting. Is that fine? or should i host it, Install wordpress and redirect to individual pages or do it via .htaccess file? I am really confused. Any advice will really help a lot.

2, max 3 to be on the safe side. Several people complained for manual penalties for 5+ redirects. You can do straight from registrar to the home, if you do not care to hide the redirect from tools (ahrefs, majestic etc).