Query-string help please!

Hey there,

Quick (and hopefully simple) question for all you experts out there.

I've got an rss feed on my site that is adding a bunch of query-string links back to my site. ie. in the feed there will be a link to: www(dot)mydomain(dot)com/results?search_query=keyword

The only problem is: I don't have anything set up that can handle query-strings on my site (the links are just 404ing). So, I was just wondering what I have to do so that my website can handle these types of URLs (don't want to get punished by Google for having lots of broken links)? I don't care if it just redirects them back to the home page, just anything other than a 404 error?

Thanks for your help!

Bob

 

You can always just add a page called results to your site. Add some info to direct the visitor in the right direction and ignor the query string. Don't do an auto redirect from that page Google doesn't like that.

 

Thanks. Didn't think it would be that easy! I was thinking I'd have to create something that would have to create pages on the fly (depending on what the incoming keyword was). Cheers.