Posted by mobile_1 on 12/05/06 15:33

"Kimmo Laine" <spam@outolempi.net> wrote in message
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> "mobile_1" <mobile_1@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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>>I am trying to fix a problem where Google has indexed the wrong version of
>>a URL. I need to redirect the bad version to the good version with 301
>>redirects.
>
> Just use a robots.txt to tell googlebot not to index the wrong page. And
> also go ask the Apache questions in an apache group, this is c.l.php...

Sorry, I didn't know about the Apache group.

Robots.txt isn't as good as a redirect since it abandons the PageRank of the
indexed versions.

I found an answer: use %1 and %2 instead of $1 and $2.

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