Is a single slash the same as double slash after the domain name?

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See, what happens in most cases is, if we try to open forcefully this url: www.example.com/games

as www.example.com//games - it automatically gets redirected to www.example.com/games - this only.

But, what when we are able to see both urls in the browser, I mean www.example.com/games is loaded correctly and www.example.com//games is getting loaded correctly, no redirection takes place?

Is it a bad sign?

or bad for SEO or

Search Engine take them as two urls?

Please, try to include link to reliable sources if possible.

This is a colon: `:`. This is a Bar, or pipe: `|`. This is a slash: `/`. You have referred to all 3. — DJMcMayhem, Feb 22 '16 at 20:35
Possible duplicate of [url with multiple forward slashes, does it break anything?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10161177/url-with-multiple-forward-slashes-does-it-break-anything) — DJMcMayhem, Feb 23 '16 at 16:24
And of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11256190/are-there-any-downsides-to-using-double-slashes-in-urls — DJMcMayhem, Feb 23 '16 at 16:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 24 '16 at 06:27

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Sunny,

This is a bad sign in terms of domain names and seo filed too. Double slash cannot crawl by the bot as per the W3c.

it would be prefer if you stuck with single slash.

answered Feb 24 '16 at 06:27

Sanjay Singh

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Is a single slash the same as double slash after the domain name?

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