Trailing double forward slashes in URL’s in the SERPs…

17 March 2007 Joost de Valk 8 comments, leave your own!

This query gives a result I hadn't seen before (image), the same page was indexed with both a single trailing forward slash, which is of course normal, and with a double trailing forward slash... This is of course a duplicate content issue, especially when people link to the double slash one by accident. The fix for it in Apache is quite easy, just add this to your server config or htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)//$
RewriteRule . http://yoast.com%1/ [R=301]

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8 Responses to “Trailing double forward slashes in URL’s in the SERPs…”

  1. By Gary Sat, March 17th, 2007 at 22:10

    Hi Joost,

    Thanks for that, I had a site where /, was being indexed (strange).

    Have used your solution to fix it.

    Thanks again.

    Gary.

  2. By Joost de Valk Sat, March 17th, 2007 at 22:35

    Glad to be of service :)

  3. By bob smith Thu, April 17th, 2008 at 00:51

    Nice read, more info to add to my useless knowledge of search engine ranking lol

    you may be interested in this

    liveblueprints

  6. By sam Wed, May 6th, 2009 at 19:57

    thanks so much. i usually don't comment on websites but your post helped fix a little bug of mine. it was totally annoying. thanks again!

  7. By AP Fri, June 5th, 2009 at 17:38

    Hi Joost, do you think that would be useful if the "//" are showing up not in the serps, but in the google analytics? thanks...

  8. By russell Sat, June 13th, 2009 at 17:14

    very helpful! thanks for solving this problem for me!

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