Need urgent help with ?s=bp...

by DavidO
2 replies
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My 5 year old site with solid SEO took a big hit in Google about two weeks ago. I mean it went from Page 1 results to nowhere (although it's not de-indexed!).

Despite massive linking and all the usual things there's been no movement at all for almost 2 weeks and it's really biting my business.

The one hint I have is that Google has placed this at the end my url: ?s=bp

I can't find out exactly what this means but I've come across references to all sorts of things like malware, redirects and Apache servers.

My host tells me to check my .htaccess file. It looks fine to me, although in my CP it won't open due to "unsupported coding" which doesn't sound right!

Here's my .htaccess content:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blood-pressure-blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

redirect 301 /index2.html http://www.mydomain.com/

redirect 301 /bp/index.html http://www.mydomain.com/


Do you see any obvious problems or have any idea about ?s=bp ???

Thanks for any suggestions... I need to solve this problem!
#sbp #urgent
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
    Banned
    Did you see my post in your old thread?


    What do you mean Google is adding the ?s=bp to the url?

    Is this being added in the SERPs, Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics?
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Hi DavidO,

      The string added to the end of your URL is known as a "Query string parameter". This string allows you to pass data to a web server through the URL. This data can be processed by scripts on your web server, or linked to or embedded in your web pages.

      If you have nothing on your web server that processes this information it will have no effect, save that of canonicalization. If I were you I would take a thorough look at the code on your website to ensure that nothing malicious is taking place (hijacked or hacked webpages).
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