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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?
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.
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