Weird 404 errors in Webmaster Tools
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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.
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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
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