Some questions about dup content and referrals

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..

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'

that worked thanks...

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/

Hi,

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

vbsetcookie('referrerid', $referrerid);

and ADD after that:

exec_header_redirect('index.php');

Seems to work thanks...

Great!