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Jeremy Cox jcox at clickcom.com
Fri May 11 17:51:16 UTC 2012


Jeremy Cox
Web Developer
www.clickcom.com
jcox at clickcom.com



On May 11, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Otto wrote:

> The word "page_name" is not a valid URL piece to begin with, and
> neither is "id". Essentially, neither of these words is looked at by
> WordPress, so it thinks you're asking for the main page.
> 
> Notice how /?pagename=foo or /?p=1234567890 will both give you a
> proper 404 (not a 401)? That's because those are the correct terms to
> be using.
> 
> -Otto
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Christine Evron <christine at tstone.biz> wrote:
>> Using v. 3.4-beta4-20766
>> twenty 11 theme
>> no plugins
>> 
>> WordPress is redirecting to my home page instead of issuing a page not found
>> error when people looking to buy garbage (insert spam term here) are sent to
>> pages Spammers wish were on my site .
>> 
>> For instance try appending /?page_name=trash&id=1995 to any WordPress url.
>> Instead of getting a page not found it goes to the home page. This is bad
>> because Google's algorithm seems to associate the trash terms with my site
>> if it doesn't get a 401 error.
>> 
>> I could be wrong about Google's associations but the trash terms are not in
>> my theme, content, or database and Google hasn't reduced the keyword
>> standings for the trash terms. - On my best day I get 20,000 hits that may
>> be legit. With the miracle of spam my pages can get 80,000 hits.  Guess what
>> Google thinks are significant terms for my site.
>> 
>> Is this a bug or have I missed the beauty of something?
>> Thanks,
>> Christine
>> 
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