Where Is This Being Addended to Our Page File Names?
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I have worked over the last several months to eliminate duplicate page titles at our site. Below is one situation that I need your advice on.
Google Webmaster Tools is reporting several of our pages with
duplicate title such as this one:This is a valid page at our Web store:
http://www.audiobooksonline.com/159179126X.html
This is an invalid page that Google says is a duplicate of the one above: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/159179126X.html?gdftrk=gdfV2138_a_7c177_a_7c432_a_7c9781591791263
Where might the code ?gdftrk=.... be coming from?
How to get rid of it?
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I'm guessing that in ShopSite 11, that's your affiliate tracking code?
http://shopsite.com/popups/associate.html
I found another site using ShopSite that uses this Robots.txt to block it:
Robots.txt: User-agent: *
Disallow: /dev/
Disallow: /dev18/
Disallow: /devupgraded/
Disallow: /staging/
Disallow: /rss/catalog/
Disallow: /skin
Disallow: /shopsite
Disallow: /?dir
Disallow: /?order
Disallow: /?mode
Disallow: /?limit
Disallow: /?price
Disallow: /?utm
Disallow: /?gdftrk
Disallow: /?gclid
Disallow: /*?SID
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