Newbie Duplicate Title Question

[VeronicaCFowler]

We recently update our website with DNN 6.  Once the upgrade was done, I kept recieving log in links on my duplicate title and duplicate content error reports.  Is anyone familiar with how to stop these links from showing up?

Example of link:

http://www.faisongroup.com/Login/tabid/750/Default.aspx?returnurl=%2F

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

[VeronicaCFowler]

Hi Woody!

Thank you!  I had to create a new robots.txt file and denied the /login/ from being indexed.  My errors went down drastically.

I appreciate the help.

Sue Ann

[seowoody]

Hey SueAnn, Sure I think I can help you here.

DotNetNuke is trying to be clever and includes a return parameter on their login URLs. So on the homepage the login link is http://www.faisongroup.com/Login/tabid/750/Default.aspx?returnurl=%2FLogin%2Ftabid%2F750%2FDefault.aspx

Meaning that once you've logged in, asp.net will redirect you back to Default.aspx (the homepage).

Now, when you click on the about page, the login link changes to http://www.faisongroup.com/Login/tabid/750/Default.aspx?returnurl=%2FAbout.aspx, notice the return URL is now About.aspx.

So in short, the answer is to add returnurl to your list of parameters to ignore in webmaster tools.

I would also suggest adding deny /login/* to your robots.txt file as you don't really want these login URLs indexed anyway.

Hope this helps,

Goodluck,

Woody