Some questions about dup content and referrals

s2kinteg916 · #1 12-07-2005, 11:23 AM

I was wondering alot of webmasters use the referral system that is built into vbulletin such as

register.php?referrerid=1

I was wondering does google see this as a duplicant content ? since refering id can range up to how may members you have and it will show up as the same page

Also im amazed theres not a rewrite for this so we can benefit from the incoming links..

Joe Ward · #2 12-07-2005, 02:48 PM

It can be rewritten with our CRRs.

misc rules

Code:

'^register\.php\?referrerid=(\d+)$' => 'register/$1/'

or

Code:

'^register\.php\?referrerid=(\d+)$' => 'register-$1.html'

s2kinteg916 · #3 12-07-2005, 03:41 PM

that worked thanks...

s2kinteg916 · #4 12-07-2005, 04:56 PM

Is there a way to do a 301 redirect ? on all incoming urls from these type of urls ? I think that would be more beneficial since the referrer is set by a cookie

for example if u refered to the index page by via index.php?referrerid=1 than made it redirect to your forum root you would gain pr... from that... rather than letting the pr leak onto pages such as index/44/

Oleg Ignatiuk · #5 12-12-2005, 03:30 PM

Hi,

you can try the following modification to achive this:
in global.php file FIND:

Quote:

vbsetcookie('referrerid', $referrerid);

and ADD after that:

Quote:

exec_header_redirect('index.php');

s2kinteg916 · #6 12-16-2005, 06:45 PM

Seems to work thanks...

Oleg Ignatiuk · #7 12-16-2005, 09:44 PM

Great!

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Some questions about dup content and referrals

Some questions about dup content and referrals