Hi Bex,

It is a bit strange, do you know how URLs are being indexed or found that have the multiple slashes in them?

I'm pretty sure it could be solved with a IIS Url Rewriting rule (I will check tomorrow) but it's important to find the source of the links too.

Jeavon

Hi Bex,

Using IIS Url Rewrite I'm sure this can be done, it's a matter of finding the right regex. I found this rule that removes double slashes:

<rewrite>
  <rules>
    <rule name="RemoveDoubleSlash" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="(.*)" />
      <action type="Redirect" url="{C:1}/{C:2}" />
      <conditions>
        <add input="{UNENCODED_URL}" pattern="(.*)//(.*)" />
      </conditions>
    </rule>
  </rules>
</rewrite>

Jeavon

Hi Jeavon

Sorry for the delay. Not been able to get near a computer...!!

We only found they had multiple slashes as our clients SEO people told us. We are re-writing the URLS ourselves already, but assumed someone must be typing them in, but will check again that we aren't causing it.. I tried this on the site with a double slash as a test and got a redirect loop, but tried it on a normal umbraco site with no url re-writing and it didn't do anything at all!

Have you tried this on an umbraco site?

Hi Bex,

Yes I did try it out on a Umbraco site and it worked, but I didn't have any other rewriting going on.

If the links are not being found or indexed with the multiple slashes I don't believe that this is a SEO issue (but that's only my opinion)....

Jeavon

Thanks Jeavon, I'll have another go with the re-writing on the site, would be good to get it working either way for future reference.

The links are being found with or without multiple slashes. They resolve the same (try https://www.google.co.uk/////////////////////////////////#q=test). Apparently it's messing up their SEO analysis stuff when it happens though so they want it fixed! We have never ever had anyone have a problem with it before though.. (so either noone's bothered/noticed it happen before, or we're causing it)

It's only a problem if inbound links are being found from somewhere with the multiple slashes in it, if they are not, then I don't see any reason why they ever would.

Might be interesting to have a rewrite rule to deal with it anyhow!

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