Google gets "//" when there is only "/" in the code

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Google gets "//" when there is only "/" in the code

eyalgi

7:25 pm on Oct 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

Can someone explain why when googlebot enters my site he gets "//" before a library in my site, when a regular user gets only one "/".

for example:
googlebot = > [example.com...]

regular user = > [example.com...]

This thing cause googlebot to give status 302.0 to this link.

Thanks

Eyal

[edited by: vitaplease at 4:35 am (utc) on Oct. 29, 2004]
[edit reason] examplified [/edit]

Patrick Taylor

3:13 pm on Oct 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

It might help if you explained how you coded your links.

<added>Welcome, finally!</added>

[edited by: Patrick_Taylor at 3:20 pm (utc) on Oct. 29, 2004]

Critter

3:15 pm on Oct 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yep, debugging code with no code is difficult. :)

eyalgi

3:24 pm on Oct 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

Just a regular a Href ...

Here is the code

<a href="http://www.israel-gifts-flowers.com/Sweden"><font color="Blue">Sweden Flowers</font></a>

Patrick Taylor

12:11 am on Oct 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

I would imagine duplicate content is a bigger potential problem for your site than the links. You have lots of near-identical pages.

Posting personal URLs isn't allowed here, by the way.

DerekH

12:02 pm on Oct 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

I would imagine the HTML is a bigger problem than duplicate content...
The site doesn't work at all on Apple Mac + Safari

DerekH

g1smd

1:04 pm on Oct 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hmm. You have 269 coding errors [validator.w3.org] on that page, and ALL of them are very easy to fix.

Additionally you can remove these tags as they do NOTHING:
<meta name="abstract" content="Sweded ...... service.">
<meta name="Revisit-after" content="30">
<meta http-equiv="Distribution" content="Global">
<meta name="Rating" content="General">
<meta name="classification" content="Sweden ...... wines">

Look closely at the validator results. You have several <link> tags and <style> tags before the <head>, after the </head> and just before the </body> tags. All of those MUST be INSIDE the <head>...</head> tags. You need to move them.

Patrick Taylor

2:36 pm on Oct 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

Could be that googlebot, on its travels, is learning to react emotionally... doesn't like the non-validating code so is deliberately sabotaging the links.

linear

4:43 pm on Nov 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

The simplest explanation I can think of is that there's an inbound link in that format somewhere. Maybe on your site or maybe not.