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im getting a 404 crawl error for mailto:info@mydoamin.co.uk, in google webmaster tools under the health > crawl errors

surly google should see that mailto: is related to an email not a webpage..

the html im using for the mailto on my page is <a href="mailto:mailto:info@mydoamin.co.uk">info@mydoamin.co.uk</a>

Whats the best way to resolve this ? Is mailto still widely used or is there a newer alternative ?

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You have two mailto: strings in that href.

Google may well be using a regex that doesn't match a colon after the first one before the @. I don't know what Google are doing, but whatever they are doing it's not working with that href. Normal clients may have troubles with it as well.

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I suggest to use <a href="mailto:info@example.com">info@example.com</a>. mailto:info@example.com is not a valid e-mail address, mailto: is the protocol part. – Lekensteyn Jun 28 '12 at 12:18
sorry ive just looked at the actual site and its writen the way you've advised. the example about i changed it to hide the site and forgot to remove the second mailto part.. but i the actual live version where im getting the error it is as you've written. ill edit the question to make clear – sam Jun 28 '12 at 12:34

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