Search engine spidering urls incorrectly

Hi,

I have been getting alot of referals from search engines who have indexed some of my site's urls incorrectly.

For example:
www.domain.com/?t=859&page=2

When I go there, it doesn't redirect but goes to the homepage.

that topic was created 2 weeks ago. What is the cause of this problem?

Hi,

as you see, this link is incorrect ("whosthread.php" is missing) - perhaps someone has posted a wrong link somewhere and search engines found it?

If you want to keep it working, you can try to add this in .htaccess after "RewriteEngine on":

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^t=([0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^$ showthread.php?%{QUERY_STRING}

It worries me that it's not only restricted to one url but most of my referrers.

When I check the source (search engine) of the referrer, it lists that format of the url.

I am using httpd.conf, so should I add:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^t=([0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^$ showthread.php?%{QUERY_STRING}

for httpd.conf? or does it have a different format.

You should try the following for httpd.conf:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^t=([0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^/$ /showthread.php?%{QUERY_STRING}

ps. could you please PM me the link to the serp example with this link pointing to you?

Hi,

Thanks for the code.

It works now fully and after implementing that code, I am not getting any incorrect urls anymore.

Thanks

Ok, great!