Referrerid not being rewritten (Referrals)

I just tested the Referer stuff on vBulletin 4 and vBSEO 3.5 RC2. It looks like domain.com/?referrerid=2 is not being rewritten to a version without the query string. That might be a duplicate content issue. Is it possible to rewrite this?

That's also the case here on vBSEO.com: vBSEO - The Leading SEO Plugin for vBulletin

Thanks!

Hello ,

We are using a custom index page on vBSEO.com that is not tied to vBulletin.

Hi Mert. Ok, but even with vBulletin in the root it's currently not being rewritten: Check this for an example:

Emo - Emostar

Hello ,

Even index.php is removed from url , referrals are tracked correctly.

Sorry for the missunderstanding, I'm just concerned about the duplicate content here:

Could that be the case here? Normal URL without referrer:

Code:

http://www.emostar.de/

URL with referrer:

Code:

http://www.emostar.de/?referrerid=2

If both are being indexed it might be treated as duplicate content. So I was thinking about vBSEO rewriting that querystring to

Code:

http://www.emostar.de/

.. as referrals are tracked through cookie anyway. Makes sense?

Thanks,
Andreas

Can you try defining the following Custom Redirect within vBSEO Cp

Code:

'^(.*)\?referrerid=.+$' => '$1'

The better thing to do would be to add referrerid to your stop parameter list in webmaster tools.

Great, thanks a lot for the suggestions. Implented the Google Webmaster Solution.