Posted: 10 May 2010 at 10:26am | IP Logged

I need some advice here. I have searched till I am at a loss. I am trying to make this url a 404 www.example.com/products/?q=anything from being a live url for duplicate content reasons or www.example.com/?q=something from being a live url 

I do not have any rewritten url's they are all static .htm pages

The site is a static site except for my search fuction. The search is something like this www.example.com/search.asp?searchterm=search term

When I tested the ?q=something all my url's will throw a 200 so I have looked for a solution. I tested some of the coding given but it won't work for my site. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Posted: 11 May 2010 at 8:38am | IP Logged

Anton wrote: Ok, let me clarify a bit. Do you need to redirect either www.example.com/products/?q=anything or www.example.com/?q=something to 404 error page?

Sorry for the bad post I wasn't thinking.

here is the issue. I have Helicon installed on the server Isapi-rewrite3. I use it for several basic fuctions 301's and several other applications but no url rewrites.

This is a static .htm site. I am an SEO and have been reading that people doing black hat seo are linking to sites using the above against them from duplicate content.

Right now on my site if I add the ?q=keyword-keyword

or

?q=something

this throws a server header 200.This makes this live page/s and can have negative effects on SEO.

So yes I want it to throw a 404 I have a custom 404 page built and use IIS to direct the user to the custom 404 page.

I do want to add I have a search fuction on the site that uses

http://www.example.com/search.asp?searchterm=anything that I do not need to mess with in the rewrite rule.

I hope my more detailed post will help in finding a way to get this done.

Thank you very much,

Joseph

Posted: 11 May 2010 at 8:42am | IP Logged

Sorry for the add I have the non www already redirected back to the www so the non www isn't needed in the rule.

http://www.google.com/?q=something is a good example

http://www.helicontech.com/?q=something another one this is the exact thing I need.