Question about URL rewrite

HI I do not if this is the best place to post this question, but I will give it a try anyways. If for example I have the following url:

www.mysite.com/results.php?category=12

and I successfully rewrite it to:

www.mysite.com/chulucanas-pottery

The search engines will add the url page as www.mysite.com/chulucanas-pottery because all other site links are pointing at this url, however this page is still accessible with www.mysite.com/results.php?category=12. Will this be a problem, because search engines can add this url also and this will create a duplicated content. Is there a way to fix this in the case search engines add both urls.

Thanks

 

its needed when u have dynamic pages

 

I been doing some research and I think this is the right question:

In order to rewrite the url from

mysite.com/results.php?category=12

to

mysite.com/chulucanas-pottery

I have this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^chulucanas-pottery$ results.php?category=12

now i want to redirect all traffic that goes to

mysite.com/results.php?category=12

to

mysite.com/chulucanas-pottery


How would I do this

I try this but does not work:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} category=12
RewriteRule ^results\.php$ chulucanas-pottery? [R=301,L]

Thanks

 

go to

Tell the mod there exactly how you want your rewrites done, he'll direct you. I just had him assist me in doing so a couple of weeks ago.

I can tell you though, it's really pointless. They say that google cannot read dynamic urls but it is not true. For instance, there are probably hundreds of digital point forum posts indexed in google, and they are all dynamic urls, as you see above.

 

I do not see any links, and I am sure Google reads dynamic urls, if it affects your ranking that I do not know, I guess in same way.

 

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