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My Homepage URL has changed ??

by josephl
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Hi all,

I dont know if this is the right forum to post this query. Apologies in advance if I posted wrongly.

Yesterday I performed a Google site search (sitenlineincomestreams247.com) and found another site link that has my homepage Url (www.onlineincomestreams247.com)
followed by this extra code: ?refsite=www.n1ads.com&ref=alexa-traffic-rank

Can anyone tell me what is last peice of code?
Where does it come from?
How to remove it and just have my hompage URL?

Thanks in advance
joseph
#changed #homepage #url
  • Profile picture of the author Earnie Boyd
    I'm not seeing what you say. The page source for the home page doesn't show any refsite mentioned.
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  • Profile picture of the author lonnylot
    Joseph,

    Anything that comes after a '?' in a link is called a query variable, or query var. It seems recently a few people are having this same issue. It is probably related to alexa.com, which does traffic ranking for websites.

    I found a brief discussion of Google Groups talking about it and they said it does not affect your site.

    They also suggested setting up Canonical URLs on your site. This will help to ensure that only your regular page is indexed. You can Google the term and find instructions on how to set this up. (I would have posted the link, but WF won't let me post links)
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    • Profile picture of the author josephl
      Thanks for the info.
      Lonny if u could PM the link I would greatly appreciate it

      I am worried that I think that this new homepage url is the cause of my website dropping from google index for keywords that i was highly placed.

      My reasoning goes like this because now there are 2 urls to my hompage, the normal URL and this query URl. I am suspecting that Google might think the second is one is duplicate content.

      Any views pls?
      Thanks in advance.
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      • Profile picture of the author rhinocl
        You seem to have a worse problem- when I follow the link I get- page not found, when I remove everything after .com I still get the error, when I click on the home page link on the error page i get nothing. Only when I go to the menu on the left do I get content.
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      • Profile picture of the author lonnylot
        Originally Posted by josephl View Post

        Thanks for the info.
        Lonny if u could PM the link I would greatly appreciate it
        I'm actually not able to PM yet, either. If you Google the term 'canonical url' the first result is pretty helpful.
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  • Profile picture of the author webcosmo
    looks like its a url link from alexa. its a query string, a way to track the visitor source for some analytics software. I wont worry about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author josephl
    dear all

    thanks for your info

    rhinocl - thnaks for pointing it out - i tried to redirect the query url to page-not-found.html using htaccess but it took all urls as being redirected to the page-not-found. now i removed this redirect

    webcosmo - i am still worried about it because i think it dropped my google rankings. Could google see it as duplicate content?
    How can i remove it and how did google index it when it is not a page of my site?

    please advise
    thanks in advance
    joseph
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    • Profile picture of the author lonnylot
      Originally Posted by josephl View Post

      How can i remove it and how did google index it when it is not a page of my site?
      Add the canonical URLs that were mentioned earlier and Google will automatically remove them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Earnie Boyd
    Are you perchance using the n1ads.com service? Do you have a sitemap.xml file, if not you should add one. I suggest you follow lonnylot's suggestions with the canonical url but you can also add a 301 redirect if you have a $_GET['refsite'] variable assigned. I don't think this should cause lowered rank on Google but you can never be too cautious with the big G.
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    • Profile picture of the author josephl
      dear earnie

      I never knew n1ads existed until I saw them in my url
      I have an xml sitemap already
      I dont know why google is listing this url as a page when i dont have a page with this n1ads query.
      I also suspect that google thinks its duplicate content and dropped my rankings

      as to 301 redirects etc I dont know what I should do
      thanks
      joseph
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