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  1. #1
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    Default Google sometimes crawls with currency in URL.. USER CURRENCY mod

    Hi,

    I have noticed that google is sometimes crawling my sites URL's with the currency parameter included for instance
    Code:
    /index.php?currency=AUD&main_page=index
    or
    Code:
    /index.php?currency=MXN&main_page=product_info&products_id=246&number_of_uploads=
    - every time google tries to crawl one of the URL's with the currency parameter included my site (v1.3.9h) responds with a 302 and forwards google to the correct(?) URL which excludes the currency paramater - for example google tries to crawl
    Code:
    /index.php?currency=AUD&main_page=index
    but then gets forwarded via 302 to
    Code:
    /index.php?main_page=index
    Is this normal?

    The instances of this happening are sporadic. It almost seems like google is making up it's own URL's.

    I don't link to or from any pages with a URL that includes a currency parameter, and my currency sidebox has not been changed or modified in any way. The only currency related addon I have is the userCurrency mod - which I only use to automatically change a customers currency according to there location AFTER sign up/login (I don't use any other features of this mod i.e the currency pre-selection based on an IP location lookup feature.)

    Thanks

  2. #2
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    Default Re: Google sometimes crawls with currency in URL.. USER CURRENCY mod

    I added a bunch of urls to my robots.txt file as I noticed I was getting penalised for duplicate content.

    its not just the currency to worry about either, Google adds the sort filter and a bunch of other stuff.

    I added this to robots.txt;

    Code:
    Disallow: /*&sort=*
    Disallow: /*&page=*
    Disallow: /*?sort=*
    Disallow: /*?currency=*
    Disallow: /index.php?currency=*
    Disallow: /*alpha_filter_id=*
    Disallow: /*&disp_order=*
    Disallow: /index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=*
    Disallow: /review?reviews_id=*
    Disallow: review?reviews_id=*
    Donation made. Enjoy those donuts! :-)

 

 

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