Newbie Duplicate Title Question
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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!
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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
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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
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