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        • r.nijkamp
          r.nijkamp last edited by

          I did a crawl start for the first time and i get many errors, but the weird fact is that the crawler tracks duplicate long, not existing urls.

          For example (to be clear):

          there is a page: www.website.com/dogs/dog.html

          but then it is continuing crawling:
          www.website.com/dogs/dog.html
          www.website.com/dogs/dogs/dog.html
          www.website.com/dogs/dogs/dogs/dog.html
          www.website.com/dogs/dogs/dogs/dogs/dog.html
          www.website.com/dogs/dogs/dogs/dogs/dogs/dog.html

          what can I do about this? Screaming Frog gave me the same issue, so I know it's something with my website

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          • r.nijkamp
            r.nijkamp last edited by

            Answer from Screaming Frog!

            The reason the SEO spider is crawling these URLs, is due to incorrect relative linking on the site from the login URL.
            It's actually when the spider crawls the login page, http://www.website.com/login?returnurl=%2F which then leads to this URL http://www.website.com/Home/ctl/SendPassword?returnurl=http:/www.website.com/ and then this /home/ sub directory URL http://www.website.com/Home/ctl/page/dogs.aspx which links to http://www.website.com/Home/ctl/page/page/dogs.aspx and so on and so forth. This is the path to the incorrect relative linking (attached for you).

            To stop this, you can correct the incorrect relative linking, or easier, simply exclude the login page.

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            • r.nijkamp
              r.nijkamp last edited by

              Wow, Big mistakes are made one Home

              maybe because of the .aspx. extension? alle pages have seo-friendly urls

              Thanks Wesley and Paddy Displays

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              • WesleySmits
                WesleySmits last edited by

                I see a link to http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/OverOdin/HeutinkICT.aspx from http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/ReindersICT.aspx.

                It's the bottom left block which causes this link. This way you will get a big nesting effect.

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                • PaddyDisplays
                  PaddyDisplays @PaddyDisplays last edited by

                  OK found one problem

                  on this page

                  http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/ReindersICT.aspx

                  you have a link to

                  http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/OverOdin/LesscherIT.aspx

                  which i think should be

                  http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/LesscherIT.aspx

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                  • PaddyDisplays
                    PaddyDisplays last edited by

                    ok I did a quick screaming fog and I think I have an idea, you just have to follow the breadcrumbs

                    You said in you example "In Links 9", you need to find out what those pages are and follow it back to the point of origin As I think its just one bad link that cause this nested link effect.

                    eg

                    http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/OverOdin/OverOdin/OverOdin/HeutinkICT.aspx

                    is being linked from

                    http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/OverOdin/OverOdin/StationtoStation.aspx  (as well as others)

                    You just have to follow that trail till you find the source of the problem

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                    • r.nijkamp
                      r.nijkamp @WesleySmits last edited by

                      every link, except the hompage itself

                      bugurl.png

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                      • r.nijkamp
                        r.nijkamp @PaddyDisplays last edited by

                        I can't see any source:

                        The pages are like:

                        | URL | www.website.com/page/ |
                        | Status Code | 200 |
                        | Status | OK |
                        | Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
                        | Size | 55811 |
                        | Title |   |
                        | Level | 10 |
                        | In Links | 9 |
                        | Out Links | 38 |

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                        • WesleySmits
                          WesleySmits @r.nijkamp last edited by

                          Which URL(s) is/are causing problems?

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                          • r.nijkamp
                            r.nijkamp @WesleySmits last edited by

                            please be free to check: http://tinyurl.com/lox7le9

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                            • WesleySmits
                              WesleySmits @r.nijkamp last edited by

                              You don't necessarily have to remove the link. As long as you can verify that it directs to the right page.

                              But curious to see what caused the problem 🙂

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                              • PaddyDisplays
                                PaddyDisplays last edited by

                                I think Screaming Frog will tell you the page it found the weird url, then you can check the source, and find out whats producing that link.

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                                • r.nijkamp
                                  r.nijkamp last edited by

                                  That is a good one! It's true that I have the same linking to the page itself. I will remove all that kind of links first and crawl again. I'll keep you in touch!

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                                  • WesleySmits
                                    WesleySmits last edited by

                                    Are you somehow linking to www.website.com/dogs/dog.html from the page itself? There could be something wrong with that link.
                                    I made a small mistake not so long ago with a redirection plugin. I told it to go to domain.com. This plugin was looking at the base + what i told it to. So it went to: domain.com/domain.com. Perhaps you made a similar mistake.

                                    Maybe you can send me the URL and i can take a look at it?

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