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    • lbohen
      lbohen last edited by

      I have worked over the last several months to eliminate duplicate page titles at our site. Below is one situation that I need your advice on.

      Google Webmaster Tools is reporting several of our pages with
      duplicate title such as this one:

      This is a valid page at our Web store:

      http://www.audiobooksonline.com/159179126X.html

      This is an invalid page that Google says is a duplicate of the one above: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/15​917​912​6X.​htm​l?g​dft​rk=​gdf​V21​38_​a_7​c17​7_a​_7c​432​_a_​7c9​781​591​791​263

      Where might the code ?gdftrk=.... be coming from?

      How to get rid of it?

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      • MattAntonino
        MattAntonino last edited by

        I'm guessing that in ShopSite 11, that's your affiliate tracking code?

        http://shopsite.com/popups/associate.html

        I found another site using ShopSite that uses this Robots.txt to block it:

        Robots.txt:  User-agent: * 
        Disallow: /dev/ 
        Disallow: /dev18/ 
        Disallow: /devupgraded/ 
        Disallow: /staging/ 
        Disallow: /rss/catalog/ 
        Disallow: /skin 
        Disallow: /shopsite 
        Disallow: /?dir 
        Disallow: /
        ?order 
        Disallow: /?mode 
        Disallow: /
        ?limit 
        Disallow: /?price 
        Disallow: /
        ?utm 
        Disallow: /?gdftrk 
        Disallow: /
        ?gclid 
        Disallow: /*?SID

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