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fishfinger  
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 More options Nov 3 2008, 7:04 am
From: fishfinger
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 04:04:29 -0800 (PST)
Local: Mon, Nov 3 2008 7:04 am
Subject: Google indexing its own banner tracking urls!
A site: search shows a listing for my site which is

/?utm_source=*&utm_medium=banner

which means I have a dupe homepage!

I've checked in Webmaster Tools and there are no links to this page,
nor can I find any indexed content using the full url in ""

Surely Google shouldn't be indexing its own urls?


 
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Tim Abracadabra  
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 More options Nov 3 2008, 7:19 am
From: Tim Abracadabra
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 04:19:27 -0800 (PST)
Local: Mon, Nov 3 2008 7:19 am
Subject: Re: Google indexing its own banner tracking urls!
How does that URL refer to your home page?

Domain URL?

Abracadabra

On Nov 3, 7:04 am, fishfinger wrote:


 
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JohnMu Google employee  
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 More options Nov 3 2008, 5:01 pm
From: JohnMu
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 14:01:23 -0800 (PST)
Local: Mon, Nov 3 2008 5:01 pm
Subject: Re: Google indexing its own banner tracking urls!
Hi Fishfinger and welcome to the groups!

A quick and easy way to prevent crawling and indexing of those URLs is
to use the robots.txt. For instance, you could use the following:

user-agent: *
disallow: /*utm_source=
disallow: /*utm_medium=

Note that this would not necessarily remove the current entries from
the index immediately - it would generally take a bit of time for that
to happen. Also keep in mind that not all search engines understand
wildcards (the *)in the robots.txt file, but at least the major ones
do.

Hope it helps!
John


 
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