[wp-hackers] ref parameters and fake url

[Otto]

Well, it definitely works, but with default permalinks (?p=XX and
such), it will only redirect you to the blog's homepage, not to the
individual single pages.


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Stefano Aglietti <steagl4ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:44:44 -0500, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
>  wrote:
>
>
>
>  >I'm still not sure why sites add that ref parameter, but if you know
>  >you don't have any plugins using it, then this will eliminate it from
>  >your site and, eventually, from Google:
>  >
>  >RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \?(ref=.*)?\ HTTP [NC]
>  >RewriteRule .? http://example.com%{REQUEST_URI}? [R=301,L]
>  >
>  >The idea is that when somebody makes a link to your site with the
>  >ref=whatever parameter, you perm redirect them to the real URL. Google
>  >will then follow these links, see the perm redirect, and change its
>  >own indexes accordingly. No more ref=spammer sites listed for you in
>  >Google.
>
>  I suggested this (found on wp.org forum) to the user that asked me
>  about this problem in the italian forum but he says it doesnt' works..
>  and iwe weren't able to find what the hell he did to make it not
>  functioning cause was just necessary to change the URL with theone of
>  the blog...
>
>  Thanks a lot too :)
>
>
>
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