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Duplicate blog pages?

July 19, 2012 11:49am

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#1 / Jul 19, 2012 11:49am

iscnataraj
6 posts

Hi,

When I type in some non-existent urls like http://www.mysite.com/blog/c/apples/blahblahblah, in the blog, instead of giving a 404 it shows a valid blog page.
And this seems to be indexed by Google. And it also seems to be duplicating the pages that are associated with this junk url.

Can you please let me know why a 404 is not thrown and what needs to be done to stop this 1000s of pages that are being indexed by Google? Is there something that needs to be taken care of in the blog template?

Thanks!
#2 / Jul 19, 2012 5:20pm

Kevin Smith
4784 posts

Hi iscnataraj,

Sounds like this guide to better URLs might be a great help to you. Try that out and let me know how you get along!