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Admin Aaron  
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  More options Sep 9 2007, 11:54 am
From: Admin Aaron
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:54:58 -0700
Local: Sun, Sep 9 2007 11:54 am
Subject: What's this funny URL?
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If you do a site:http://www.ne-design.net/ on me you see that the
second URL listed on Google is this funny looking one:
http://www.ne-design.net/?src=QHA107

Can someone help me figure out what that is and how to remove it?

Note: My website is a static wordpress blog, at least that is what I
am trying to build to sell my product to a future internet.

Thanks!

Aaron


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  More options Sep 9 2007, 3:36 pm
From: enoon
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:36:02 -0700
Local: Sun, Sep 9 2007 3:36 pm
Subject: Re: What's this funny URL?
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Aaron,

Hello - long time
You can put anything after the '?src=' - like http://www.ne-design.net/?src=QHAkllldlkld
and you get honourable mention here
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%3Fsrc%3DQHA107&hl=en&rls=GGLG,GGLG:....
You can even do http://www.ne-design.net/?src=oldmacdonaldhadacow and
still stay on the same page. At least it doesn't link to anywhere else
so it MIGHT not matter.

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  More options Sep 9 2007, 4:26 pm
From: Admin Aaron
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:26:14 -0700
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Subject: Re: What's this funny URL?
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Hi, I believe it surely DOES matter because Google has indexed it as
if it is a duplicate "home" page.

If it was not important Google wouldn't have placed it #2 when using
the "site:" command?

It matters!

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  More options Sep 9 2007, 4:38 pm
From: enoon
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:38:19 -0700
Local: Sun, Sep 9 2007 4:38 pm
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Then why not try http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6...
or
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=61050

It's on your server - try GSite Crawler - so the problem seems to be
there

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  More options Sep 9 2007, 5:00 pm
From: Admin Aaron
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:00:34 -0000
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Subject: Re: What's this funny URL?
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Cuz if Google is messing up and believes the URL I remove, redirect or
nofollow is my index we got a serious issue here.

Google?

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  More options Sep 9 2007, 5:25 pm
From: enoon
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:25:03 -0700
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Maybe a GSite xml map with duplicates removed + robots.txt + heavy
prayer or masterly inactivity. Second thoughts - it's NOT on your
server. Maybe there's a question why '?src=QHA107' comes up on a
number of sites and is as pointless there as it is on yours. Any links
coming from here http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/ind_display.pl?Account=RCY&Template...

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  More options Sep 9 2007, 6:53 pm
From: webado
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:53:31 -0000
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Google is not messing up.

Googlbot has found such a link while crawling the web, it has followed
it, and your server has not responded with a 404 or any other error
code - so all indications are that the url is good. A page of content
got served for it. Thus it gets indexed. Well at least it will get
indexed unless it already knows there is another url with the same
content and that the other url is ranked higher.

It's possible the links to that url outweigh any others you get to
your "true" homepage url - or it's a toss-out.

So the solution is to intercept such improper REQUEST_URI (or any
query string if your site does not use query strings) and 301 redirect
them elsewhere where they'd be more useful.

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  More options Sep 9 2007, 6:58 pm
From: webado
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:58:31 -0000
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The site also has a live link to http://www.ne-design.net/xmlrpc.php
which shoudl not be included.
And a number of 301 redirections which  should never be met during a
crawl.

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  More options Sep 9 2007, 7:27 pm
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Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:27:00 -0000
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Well if I redirect, what is it that I am actually redirecting?

If you look in Google's SERP of cached pages it thinks this strange
URL is just as important as my index?

I wonder if this is why I continue to drop in the rankings for my
cherished keyword(s)?

It is intresting to see others with the same URL here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%3Fsrc%3DQHA107&btnG=Google+Search

Is that Americorps.org?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.americor...

Yep they got the bug also....

So, I guess the question is, what do we all have in common, are we all
using Wordpress as our chosen CMS?

Is it a plugin?

Help!

:-(

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  More options Sep 9 2007, 7:40 pm
From: Admin Aaron
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:40:27 -0000
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Ok, it appears the link appeal is coming from a strange e-magazine
"green" directory, might as well redirect the funny page URL to
root... correct?

redirect 301 /?src=QHA107 http://www.ne-design.net/

Yes?

This stuff get's me a little nervous...

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