Would the recent redirect changes affect chained redirects?
In general, with redirects and also with links what we look is the origin, the canonical URL where started and the final destination. And essentially, this is a connection between those two. So what happens in between is less of an issue. From a user point of view, if you have multiple redirects that you are chaining then that adds latency – especially on mobile devices that could be a lot of latency. When we crawl those redirects, we tend to crawl, I think, 5 redirects in a row, and then if you have more redirects which are kinda chained to each other, then we would have to reschedule that and have to look at them again at a later step. So, that really delays how we pick up new content. As much as possible the existing best practices still remain valid. Any time you add redirect chains there is extra complexity and things can go wrong… it also adds a lot of latency, depending on the set-up and the user. Ideally, keep things simple and direct between the origin and final destination.