Redesign SEO Troubleshooting Help

We launched a redesign at the end of May and soon after, our website was de-indexed from Google. Here are the changes that I implemented so far to try to fix this issue:
1) 301 redirect chain – We changed all our URLs and implemented 301 redirects. However, these are multiple redirects meaning 1 URL redirects to a second and then a 3rd. I was told that this could confuse Google.
We wrote a rule for each variation of the URL and now there is only a one to one 301 redirect and this was validated…
Redesign SEO Troubleshooting Help

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