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Posted by Peter Fox on 02/19/06 02:47
Following on from wd's message. . .
>On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:59:10 +0000, Peter Fox wrote:
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>> Following on from wd's message. . .
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>> Is 404 the most suitable 400-series status code?
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>It would either have to be 404 or 410. Google spidered about 250 URLs on
>the site that have duplicate content like this:
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>http://www. my_site .com/index.php?p=12345
>http://www. my_site .com/index.php?p=23456
>http://www. my_site .com/index.php?p=239fj
>http://www. my_site .com/index.php?p=29fks
>http://www. my_site .com/index.php?p=20fks
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>I need those kinds of pages removed from Google's cache. Those pages
>don't exist so Google thinks there are 250 web pages with the same content
>as the home page. The site is being penalized because of it. From what
>I've read on Google's webmaster guidelines, Google will only remove them
>if it finds a 404 error message. Apparently, a 410 header will work also.
Ooo err!
Shouldn't you be returning 404 if foo doesn't exist when asked for with
index.php?p=foo rather than any ?p=... ? What happens if Joe Bloggs
types in one of the offending ?p=... or a valid ?p=... How do you
distinguish those cases?
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