I've got a minor bug in part of my site with the integration of a few pieces of php systems. It's minor, slightly annoying, but I wonder if google will see things differently. What is happening is sometimes an extra / is added to the end of a url. What is normally monteux.no-ip.org/ changes to monteux.no-ip.org//. While I intend to sort this problem sooner or later, there are other things I'm working on currently, and I'm just wondering if you think that google might see these as two seperate pages. (I do know it sees / and /index.php as seperate pages.) Thanks in advance.
I think its a configuration problem and you can correct it internally instead of leaving the url with two slash
Google can and has picked up double slashes in urls to files before... ie: http://www.domain.tld//page.php Code (markup): which will cause a duplicate penalty. Your problem is likely to be in your mod_rewrite rules (adding a trailing slash before checking if it already exists?), or in the script somewhere, but link absolutely in your pages (full http:// version) and you should not have to worry quite as much.
both work fine, but it seems that this is in enough of a grey area to get different answers, I'll just fix it. Thanks anyway.
I have made the mistake before, and yes, Google will pick one to rank. But as long as the second one exists in the index (shows up in a site: command) it will not rank as well. Fixing the problem and removing my bad url (Google removal console will accept double slashed urls) brought the page back up within 24 hours of having the request processed. However, I cannot vouch for a domain alone with the double slash - if there is a penalty, or if Google will not go ahead and deindex the entire site for a removal request in that instance.