All urls seem to exist (no 404 errors) but they don't.

[DoMiSoL]

Hello I am doing a SEO auditing for a website which only has a few pages. I have no cPanel credentials, no FTP no Wordpress admin account, just watching it from the outside.

The site works, the Moz crawler didn't report any problem, I can reach every  page from the menu.

The problem is that - except for the few actual pages - no matter what you type after the domain name, you always reach the home page and don't get any 404 error.

I.E.

Http://domain.com/oiuxyxyzbpoyob/ (there is no such a page, but i don't get 404 error, the home is displayed and the  url in the browser remains Http://domain.com/oiubpoyob/, so it's not a 301 redirect).

Http://domain.com/WhatEverYouType/ (same)

1. Could this be an important SEO issue (i.e. resulting in infinite amount of duplicate content pages )?
2. Do you think I should require the owner to prevent this from happening?
3. Should I look into the .htaccess file to fix it ?

Thank you Mozers!

[royalcaninnl]

Hi,

This is indeed an SEO issue, because you could possibly get an infinite ammount of duplicate content pages of your homepage. I do not think it is a major issue (i think that Google in Webmaster tool handles it as a soft 404). But from a user standpoint it is weird and not really use friendly.

It could be managed in the HTACCES but could also be a Wordpress setup. So it depends.