Affiliate Url & duplicate content
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Hi
i have checked passed Q&As and couldn't find anything on this so thought I would ask.
I have recently noticed my URLS adding the following to the end: mydomain.com/?fullweb=1I cant seem to locate where these URLS are coming from and how this is being created?
This is causing duplicate content on google. I wanted to know ig anyone has had any previous experience with something like this?
If anyone has any information on this it would be a great help.
thanks
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I'm seeing a lot of that in the SERPs with no particular pattern, even on BBC's site. Are you running Wordpress? Could it be a plugin you've added?
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Often, pages on a website will have different means by which they're reached. As an example, the logo on a website's top-left often links to the homepage, but the link (initially) would be something like: websitename.com/ref=logo or something to that effect. This is the same sort of issue as websitename.com/ and websitename.com/home being the same page. What's recommended in these instances is to create a 301 redirect for every duplicate page, to the base. Meaning, you would redirect websitename.com/home to websitename.com/, which tells search engines like Google that the prior should be replaced in search and in access to the latter.
This may help you find other duplicates that you have by searching **site:websitename.com **in Google (all one word, no spaces). This shows you every page on a website and can help you keep track of what pages you need to take care of.
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