SERPS showing url with space in the middle

[Ronnie101]

Hi guys
Like many I have been affected by the recent SERPS changes and on the whole i've just been being patient and waiting for our excellent rankings to come back.
I just noticed that almost all of our urls in G's index have a space in the middle

i.e. www.domain.com/ index.asp

which obviously ain't good.

Anybody else seen this?

[balam]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Ronnie101!

The spaces you are seeing in your - and many others' - URLs in the SERPs have been there for ...several?/a few?/a couple of?... years and are no cause for concern. Nor does it have any impact - good or bad - on your ranking.

If memory serves, Google's rationale for the spaces is that it helps reduce side-scrolling in small display devices like mobile phones. The only adverse effect of the spaces, that I'm aware of, is when copy 'n' pastin' the URL you have to remove them for the URL to work.

[kamran mohammed]

Well said balam - that's True.

[g1smd]

The URLs in green print have a space so that if they are very long then they can wrap on to two lines.

Occasionally a URL is still too long on a narrow screen and you get a strange effect if it is the second or third result on the page.

The first result shows as normal at the top of the screen, and then there are the usual several adverts at the right side of the search result.

Next there is a very big gap on the left because the second result has a very long URL and is positioned BELOW the end of the right hand adverts.

Sometimes it looks like there is only one Google search result until you scroll down the page.