Hey all -- ever seen a client with URLs that keep repeating the domain? Something like: client.com/client.com/client.com/subfolder-name. Any idea what glitch could cause that?

[TDC_SEO]

Hey all -- ever seen a client with URLs that keep repeating the domain? Something like: client.com/client.com/client.com/subfolder-name. Any idea what glitch could cause that?

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

Sounds like redirect loop. Check your htaccess.

[BrianJGomez]

Sounds like a faulty CMS issues ... what sort of CMS is it?

[Stramark]

It could also be just a link that should be relative, but is not.

you can use screaming frog SEO spider to find the page that is linked from.

[rjonesx. 0]

This is generally a mix of two issues...

1. Handling 404s improperly
2. An improper relative link

9 times out of 10 this is the issue. Let's say, for example, the client's site is "client.com"

A link in their main template looks like this...

a href="client.com/"

instead of...

a href="http://client.com"

or

a href="/"

That first link will cause Google, or any crawler, to visit "http://client.com/client.com". When the bot visits this page, it finds the same a href="client.com/" link and, now tries to visit "http://client.com/client.com/client.com" so on and so forth.

Now, for this to happen, the page also needs to deliver a 200OK, otherwise Google would likely stop trying to access the page because of the 404.

Both of these issues need to be resolved.