is there a max perm redirect?

redirect limit?

[meelosh]

I am rebuilding a site that has changed hands a few times and has some good juice coming in but some of the urls have either changed suffixes or nolonger exist. i have done sites with about 100 or so 301's and i think this site might go upto about 300 but it will be worth it.
is there a number of redirects to avoid or is it really unlimited? dont want to reclaim the juice but violate some rule i dont know of as far as htacces redirects.

[bwnbwn]

I did over a 1000 in spurts of about 50-75 over a period of about 3-4 months with no issues. I would have done them all at once but I had to do them by hand in IIS due to the fact my pages are all static.

[jdMorgan]

URLs changed suffixes

Any redirection contemplated for this reason is unnecessary. There is no reason a URL should ever have to change its suffix (a.k.a extension or "filetype"). In fact, there's no reason a URL even needs a suffix...

If your pages change "technology" then just internally rewrite the old URLs to the new filenames. This is a good reason to remember that URLs and filenames are *not* the same thing, nor are they even related in any way -- except by the action of the server. URLs in the Web name-space are only "associated" with filenames in the server filesystem name-space, and you can easily change that associative relationship by using mod_rewrite or ISAPI Rewrite.

It's not my intent to pick on anyone here, but the number of URLs that change unnecessarily every day (at risk of at least temporary ranking loss) is tremendous... I'm just trying to "get the word out."

Jim

[meelosh]

thanks guys....JD, sorry about the suffixes part i am already taking care of that with mod_rewrite. The file names are the real issue as they are different here and there. i agree with you 100% with regard to the "file ext" it does not matter so my apologies for mentioning it (too much work not enough sleep..bad habit)
i really just wanted to know if there is any limit to doing redirects in your htaccess file that will compromise the performance or anything else.
thanks