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Double Encoded URLs

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

Search engines will index double encoded URLs, however there may be instances where the same page is found with single encoding resulting in duplicate content issues and wasted crawl budget.

How do you fix it​

Identify if the URLs are created by malformed encoding of internal links in which case the links to the URL should be corrected to use single encoding.

What is the positive impact​

  • Search engines may index multiple copies of the same page resulting in dilution of authority.
  • Crawling resources may be wasted which could impact the discovery of other URLs
  • Search engines may not select the preferred URL format.

How to fetch the data for this report template​

You will need to run a crawl for report template to generate report. When report has been generated and you have crawl id you can fetch data for the report using the following query:

query GetReportForCrawl($crawlId: ObjectID!, $reportTemplateCode: String!) {
  getCrawl(id: $crawlId) {
    reportsByCode(
      input: {
        reportTypeCodes: Basic
        reportTemplateCodes: [$reportTemplateCode]
      }
    ) {
      rows {
        nodes {
          ... on CrawlUrls {
            pageTitle
            url
            description
            foundAtUrl
            deeprank
            level
            urlDoubleEncoded
            httpStatusCode
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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