?replytocom= WHAT TO DO?

[JohnPalmer]

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[DirkC]

Best option to check is to test a sample url in Webmastertools (Crawl > Robots.txt tester). It will show if the url is blocked or not.

An alternative would be to put a "nofollow" on these type of links and/or use a canonical url to the version without the ?replytocom.

Hope this helps

Dirk

[MattRoney]

I'd say that if you don't want URLs with that parameter crawled, you're fine blocking it in robots.txt. Dirk's alternatives are great, too, but I don't see anything inherently wrong with what you're already doing.

[TomBinga1125]

First, make sure you have the proper canonical URLs set up in your theme. You can use a good SEO plugin (Yoast, All-in-One SEO) or add it yourself.

Second, go into Google Webmaster Tools and add "replytocom" to your URL Paramaters (Crawl > URL Parameters).

Third, monitor the amount of those URLs in Google's index by doing the following Google search:

site:yourdomain.com replytocom

Hope that helps!
Tom