URL with two forward slashes //

[Motava]

We have a potential client with a URL structure in this fashion:

http://www.site-url.com//cpage/page.html

pretty strange, right?

my question is:

How bad are the 2 forward slashes // for SEO?

How bad is it to have that extra layer of /cpage in the URL? this doesn't appear to serve any other purpose than making the URL longer than necessary.

[Theo-NL]

The // is most likely the result of a faulty setting in the (url routing) system and should be something that can be fixed. As for both the // and the /cpage: is it optimal? Most certainly not, neither for search engines nor for visitors, will it harm your rankings badly, I don't think so. Even though it is something you'd rather not have in your url, all other things being perfect you'll probably won't notice this in your rankings.