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Pages with Repeated Paths

Priority: Critical

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

  • Google may not index a URL with the same path repeated 3 or more times as it matches the pattern of a malformed URL resulting in an infinite spider trap.

  • A significant number of malformed URLs may waste crawl budget or cause indexing issues of the pages are duplicated and not corrected by a canonical tag.

How do you fix it​

  • Identify if the URL is created by malformed internal links in which case the links to the URL should be corrected.

  • Otherwise the URL format may need to be modified to prevent the same path being repeated.

What is the positive impact​

The URLs are likely to be duplicates and may be crawled Search Engines wasting crawl budget and causing indexing issues.

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:

Operation: query GetReportStatForCrawl( $crawlId: ObjectID! $reportTemplateCode: String! $after: String ) { getReportStat( input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode} ) { crawlUrls(after: $after, reportType: Basic) { nodes { pageTitle url description foundAtUrl deeprank level urlContainsRepeatedPaths httpStatusCode foundInGoogleAnalytics foundInGoogleSearchConsole foundInBacklinks foundInList foundInLogSummary foundInWebCrawl foundInSitemap } totalCount pageInfo { endCursor hasNextPage } } } }Variables: {"crawlId":"TjAwNUNyYXdsNDAwMA","reportTemplateCode":"pages_with_repeated_paths"}
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GraphQL
query GetReportStatForCrawl(
    $crawlId: ObjectID!
    $reportTemplateCode: String!
    $after: String
   ) {
      getReportStat(
        input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode}
      ) {
        crawlUrls(after: $after, reportType: Basic) {
          nodes {
            pageTitle
            url
            description
            foundAtUrl
            deeprank
            level
            urlContainsRepeatedPaths
            httpStatusCode
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }