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    • Linda-Vassily
      Linda-Vassily @SussexChef83 last edited by

      Actually, I looked with Screaming Frog, and I can see where the error is. (One part, anyway.) Look in your header. The linking for the phone number and email there is odd.

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      • SussexChef83
        SussexChef83 last edited by

        Hi I see it in screaming frog too, should I just redirect the urls rather than trying to find them and correct them?

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        • Linda-Vassily
          Linda-Vassily last edited by

          The http comes in twice, because it seems that an absolute path is being input where a relative path is expected.

          In other words, the html of your link to E-mail : Info@SussexChef.com says: <a href="http.sussexchef.com/contact-us/"> this is on the page (I just picked one as an example): http://sussexchef.com/menus/christmas-buffet-delivery. The link becomes http://sussexchef.com/menus/http.sussexchef.com/contact-us/ because apparently in that header a path relative to http://sussexchef.com/menus/ was expected.

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          • SussexChef83
            SussexChef83 last edited by

            Wow

            Ok so the header is coursing the bad links, how do I go about fixing that? do I contact the support that make the theme?

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            • Linda-Vassily
              Linda-Vassily @SussexChef83 last edited by

              I haven't looked at everything, but I suspect that the only thing you need to fix is that link, the email link in the header. For some reason the URL there is being treated as being relative to the page that it is on. Talk to whomever set it up and they can probably fix it fairly quickly. And I'd probably make that a mailto: link anyway, but that's a different issue... [Looking at your site is making me very hungry, and I've just had breakfast!]

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              • SussexChef83
                SussexChef83 last edited by

                Thanks for the compliment!

                So I just 301 all 101 links?

                sounds fun huh!

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                • Linda-Vassily
                  Linda-Vassily last edited by

                  I wouldn't do that. If this is Wordpress, you could probably rummage around in the editor and fix the problem (if you are very comfortable with that sort of thing) but the best thing would be to do as you mentioned, contact the theme support and tell them the problem. I am sure it is an easy fix.

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                  • SussexChef83
                    SussexChef83 last edited by

                    I've opened a ticket with them, fingers crossed, any idea which file?

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                    • Linda-Vassily
                      Linda-Vassily last edited by

                      I would start by looking in header.php, but they will know.

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                      • MonicaOConnor
                        MonicaOConnor @SussexChef83 last edited by

                        Is this WordPress or some other platform? Do you have access to your CSS and HTML files? The template of the site? The ahref is just not done correctly for the contact us page.

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                        • SussexChef83
                          SussexChef83 @MonicaOConnor last edited by

                          Hi yes it is wordpress.

                          Do you mean Wp-admin>css>? there are lots of files in there! all .css

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                          • MonicaOConnor
                            MonicaOConnor @SussexChef83 last edited by

                            is there a header.php? I don't know, maybe better to let the pros handle it lol

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