Entries doubling up

[Steve]

I have the Zoomsearch 4.1 (build 1003) search engine using it in ASP mode.

After completing a full index in spider mode my results page doubles up every entry, one has the correct url the second adds an extra / in the address.

ie

http://www.chester-city.co.uk/august01news.asp

http://www.chester-city.co.uk//august01news.asp

Any ideas what could be causing this?

Steve

[David]

I had a look at your site. You seem to have messed up some of your HTML links.

For example, if you view the HTML source on this page,
http://www.chester-city.co.uk/squad_numbers_0506.asp
you can see this HTML code,

<tr>
<td class="submenutext">
Juniors
</td>
</tr>

Notice the double // in the link. Mistakes like this cause a cascade effect. For example, try visting the messed up link,
http://www.chester-city.co.uk//juniors_main.asp
You will see that it works, but every link on this page is also messed up. So a single messed up link can cause an entire set of duplicate messed up links across your whole site.

Like the dumb spider that Zoom is, it indexes all working links. Which causes a duplicate set of pages in your results. A side effect of fixing this will be that indexing will be twice as fast.

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David

[Steve]

Thanks David, yes I've found the wrong link in a template set which transferred across 50+ files, all is now fine.

Cheers, Steve