I see what you mean. Well the links from the home page sites are going from sites that are for information purposes only, then link to the service provider recommended by that website.

I wouldn't see anything wrong with this. There are 5 sites linking from the home page to my main site out of 120 backlinks. I presume that this doesnt look bad in Google's eyes

Hi Andy,

Thanks for helping out.

Can you tell me why you think home page links are bad? I actually started a question about this last week but didnt get many replys. Do you think getting home page links a bad thing to do?

Ive done some digging and found that when I go to mysite1.com in majestic and look at Pages, its showing all the long URLs that I found pointing to mysite2.com

So I guess that at some point in its life, these pages have been indexed by Google.

These URLs all start with a ? i.e. mysite1.com/?561796

So I am guessing the best way to solve this is to make all URLs that start with a /? be redirected to the root.

Unfortunetly I have no idea how to write this in the htaccess file

Ok I have noticed that any URL with ? at the end shows the home page.

mysite1.com/? will show the home page

mysite1.com/?111 will show the home page

etc etc

So I guess I need to redirect anything with a ? to the home page using a 301.

Can someone tell me what the code will be to do that in the htaccess file?

Hi,

Unfortunately I cant do that on a public forum.

But I can tell you all the URLs look like the one Ive posted, loads of numbers etc.

It isnt a dynamic site so these actual URLs are not  live pages.

When you visit these URLs, they are just duplicates of the home page

Hope that helps a little

I have a HTML website, mysite1.com, and I placed a link on the home page to another one of my sites, mysite2.com

Today I checked the links to mysite2.com in Majestic and noticed 24 links coming from the mysite1.com instead of just one link.

The URLs from mysite1.com that are showing in Majestic are like this

mysite1.com/?epl=4donafvFK3fMXxZXMWQRQLodmPchoXCK5C7-kbBv_agkwlkJrZAoaSDVUlhqFmUqt0f8c2Q6jF6GO6DNMnbidqRsikriF-IEBEt5okmICLEB0FxP36GrsxoPGQ3SGBo1PVR7itDUA4CYmjypn5gi

mysite1.com,was inherited from a friend and I believe that it was originally built in Frontpage.

Can you tell me how I can get rid of these multiple links as I only want 1 showing from the home page

Thanks in advance

My site was just accepted in to Google News yesturday and when I went to check the sitemap for the news, Google Webmaster showed errors for the news sitemap.

So I have tried every wordpress plugin I could find, and submitted the news sitempa.

Each one had errors, the only one that worked for me and my site is now showing in Google News is this plugin BWP Google XML Sitemaps

Hope that helps