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What are this for weird url's that Google is indexing for one of my sites

by nik0 Banned
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http://www.mysite.com/?zip=23535

http://www.mysite.com/?radius=5&zip=06437

It all leads to the homepage and I want to get rid of it. Any idea how?

I already deleted the whole site, deleted the mysql database, removed it from the add-on domains, made a fresh new install and it still leads to my homepage when I type in those odd url's.

Worse thing is that they are flagged with a high PR, like it eats up all my juice without purpose / having a way to use it.
#google #indexing #sites #url #weird
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I know If your running a search box on Wordpress it will return funky URLs similar to what you posted.

    The funky WP search box only shows If the search box includes an image as part of the theme, what it's doing is showing the X & Y pixel position that the traffic clicked on when first entering their search phrase in the WP search box.

    Might not be the same thing, but it looks similar.

    The zip looks like a US zip code (5 digits).

    /?zip=23535
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    I just tried that url on one of my other sites on the same hosting and it also shows the homepage under that one. In the Google search results it says:

    Index of / .ftpquota · cgi-bin/

    It also comes up with real long ones like:

    hxxp://www.mysite.com/?fp=yXpUJys0Hxy4ltHWGch7PmBmzDasBD780GC7LejnCz4g%2 B29GQQj1TBEyTAcru%2F8Z5hJbk25s30b29k%2B2E%2BdZMQ%3 D%3D&prvtof=KN8YQGUU0irTbkaTg2ke34rT8xxrry6sTNvLuD AbmFg%3D&poru=LD1iAXLmrEq7dyqfvpPM5%2FBhxeolJ40MD9 zsS%2BF6MMDLLb8%2BYwCriiQrS0FWumaSqPi8Ele0JfoE9NLO dCpB6A%3D%3D

    Check it out here I would say as it also works for other sites on the same hosting:

    http://seoservicegroup.com/?fp=yXpUJ...LOdCpB6A%3D%3D

    However, that one is not indexed in Google but there are some of these type of url's that are indexed and PR's as high as 5. Heck that one for my other site where it is indexed is PR6 (root url is also PR6 btw).

    And what's even more odd, other pages on that PR6 domain all the posts stayed PR0 in the latest update, while my category pages got rewarded with PR5.
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  • Profile picture of the author IM Ash
    Wordpress does this for some strange reason! You can setup a robots.txt to block search engines from indexing anything with a ? in it but that will also block feeds and stuff that have a ? ...probably not a good option!

    I think the canonical tag should sort out any duplicate issues (but I'm not sure on this one).

    I can make a funky URL like that for Matt Cutts blog as well.. Check this out:

    http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?secre...54545215478877





    (let's see if it gets indexed)
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Lol okay, how did you do that? Just cause of the question mark you can put anything behind it?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    It's tracking, but the question is "What/why is it tracking?".
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      It's tracking, but the question is "What/why is it tracking?".
      No idea, I haven't installed any tracking scripts or anything like that.

      Btw those odd radius url's dissappeared when I logged out from Google, but those ones with the long row of letters/symbols etc stayed, and one of them is PR6, mehhh
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      • Profile picture of the author IM Ash
        This one is baffling. It seems that it is not just a wordpress thing. I tried it on non-wordpress sites and I get the same results. The "?" denotes the end of a path and it is usually used for tracking! I am trying to find more info. about it but not much online. I am sure someone can shed some light on this.
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