Temporary Redirects

[taychatha]

Hi, I've noticed that most of my temporary redirects are the cause of this parameter.

http://www.maddenstudents.com/forum/search.php**?s=2f0b01c7d530cf117a2bbb6811f0b527**&do=finduser&userid=1&contenttype=vBForum_Post&showposts=1

http://www.maddenstudents.com/forum/search.php**?s=2f0b01c7d530cf117a2bbb6811f0b527**&do=finduser&userid=1&searchthreadid=15&contenttype=vBForum_Post&showposts=1

I also noticed that almost all of my duplicate content and duplicate titles are the cause of this parameter. I tried going into google webmasters, but they say i don't need to change anything. How do I get rid of this parameter because it seems to be causing a lot of errors and warning for me.

[magicrob]

Hi

It looks like you don't want to have search engines index internal search results from your website.

You could achieve this a couple of ways:

• By adding the meta noindex tag to your search results pages (see "Meta Robots" on this page)
• By using Parameter Handling within Google Webmaster Tools

Hope that's helpful

[irvingw]

Webmaster Tools parameter handleing and also add canonical tags to all of your pages and this combination will care care of your issue.

[taychatha]

How do you add canonical tags to pages?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

You add the canonical tags to the head of your HTML documents, in this article from the Google Webmaster Tools help section it's explained how you do this: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

[taychatha]

What is the parameter I should use to handle this?

[taychatha]

Should I have it so that GoogleBot does not crawl those links? Since I want to avoid duplicates?

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Really easy, just: s. It probably will already be visible in the parameters found by GWT itself.