What does ?C=D;O=A mean?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by willyboy104, Dec 30, 2008.

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    Hey guys, one of my sites is ranked in Google and I noticed after the URL it has "?C=D;O=A" following it.

    So for example

    www.mywebsite.com/?C=D;O=A now it doesn't affect where the link sends them its the same page however I am wondering what it is and how I can get rid of it?

    Will.
     
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  2. LinkBliss

    LinkBliss Peon

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    Do you think it is Google adding it or it comes from your site? What is your site URL?

    Eric
     
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  3. willyboy104

    willyboy104 Active Member

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    I think its coming from my site personally, not sure why though. I ve deleted the HTACCESS file thinking it may of came from there.
     
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    Paz Well-Known Member

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    It's an Apache server signature that I've seen as a directory listing (instead of index.php say) after a site's crashed - I don't remember the details though. I expect the site crashed momentarily and you were unfortunate enough to be crawled during that period..

    I'd definitely block it with a robots.txt because it's a duplicate of your home page and if you get enough of those they can harm your rankings.

    ie
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /?C=D;O=A

    What were the contents of the htaccess?

    Cheers,
    Paz.
     
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  5. willyboy104

    willyboy104 Active Member

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    Thanks Paz. It was a redirect which I later on realised it was the wrong redirect so I deleted it. I shall add this to a new robot.txt file now.
     
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    I'm positive i've seen this in folders before to arrange the dates file size and filename.

    I think its got somthing to with arranging things.
    like this thread has ?t=1169054 at the end of it to arrange all the threads with numbers.
    just curious about this ;)
     
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