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    • theLotter
      theLotter last edited by

      My site has many error URLs that Google webmaster has identified as pages without titles.

      These are URLs such as: www.site.com/page???1234

      For these URLs should I:

      1. Add them as duplicate canonicals to the correct page (that is being displayed on the error URLs)

      2. Add 301 redirect to the correct URL

      3. Block the pages in robots.txt

      Thanks!

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      • ramangarg
        ramangarg last edited by

        From my understanding, if you no links going to that url, it might be the crawler verifying existence of the 404 page.

        So displaying a 404 page is best option for that.

        However, if you have links going to that url, you should either fix those(if internal) or do 301 redirect as you said.

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