Multi Redirects vs Single Redirect

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Jeremy L. Knauff: No. One hop to the final destination.
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  Neil Cheesman: and interestingly several websites have it as a 302
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  Federico Sasso: Best option is setting only one hop, to reduce HTTP requests and delays. Yet, if your backend system is not that flexible it`s not a big tragedy: googlebot (I`m not sure about other search crawlers) can follow up to five redirects.
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  Tony McCreath: It`s easier to work out the simpler hops than create direct redirects from all variants. Lazy, but no major loss.