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    • nishthaj
      nishthaj last edited by

      Hi,

      In a regular check with Webmaster Tools, I have noticed some weird 404 errors, for example, my domain URL is something like http://domainname.com/, the 404 error points to some weird URLs like http://domainname.com/james-bond&page=2/ and http://domainname.com/juegos-de&page=3/, at first I have tried to block them by robots.txt, but now I am getting these kind of 404 errors a lot, and don't think blocking them all is a perfect solution.

      Can anyone help me out with the issue?

      Thank you in advance.
      cheers.

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      • paupastorlopez
        paupastorlopez last edited by

        Hi nishthaj,

        I think blocking with robots.txt is a good solution. But you don't have to block each url manually, it's better to block all urls that have: & or =

        I think the code for this is:

        Disallow: /*&

        Disallow: /*=

        This way you will automatically block all present and future weird urls like this and prevent present and futures problems.

        Hope that helped ๐Ÿ˜‰

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