Multiple Slashes in URL

What This Means

A URL contains two or more consecutive forward slashes (//) in the path — for example, https://yourdomain.com//page/ or https://yourdomain.com/section//sub/. This creates an alternative URL form that may be treated as a distinct URL.

Why It Matters for SEO

Multiple slashes in a URL path may cause the server to respond differently than for the normalized version — some servers treat them as the same URL, others as distinct paths. Search engines may index both variants as separate pages, creating potential duplication issues.

What the Platform Checks

The platform scans URL paths for consecutive slash characters. Fires when two or more consecutive slashes are found.

How to Fix It

• Configure your web server to normalize multiple slashes to a single slash using URL rewriting.
• In Apache: use mod_rewrite to redirect //+ paths to / paths.
• In Nginx: set merge_slashes on (which is the default in most configurations).
• Identify the source generating double-slash URLs — often a string concatenation error in URL building code.