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a problem with url

[experienced]

I have a forum where i found my post are being indexed like this.

domain.com/viewtopic,p,131.html
domain.com/t1212.html

these 2 pages are indexed where both the pages represents the same page. the view topic url is indexed likr url only in google. I want only t1212.html to be indexed. can anybody tell me how to do this.

or any idea so that only t1212.html type pages will be generated when rewriting is going on.

thanks a lot

Exp..

[jdMorgan]

In your robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /viewtopic

Jim

[experienced]

i already have this code in robots file which is online but still, pages are indexed.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /faq.php
Disallow: /groupcp.php
Disallow: /login.php
Disallow: /memberlist.php
Disallow: /modcp.php
Disallow: /posting,
Disallow: /posting.php
Disallow: /privmsg,
Disallow: /privmsg.php
Disallow: /profile.php
Disallow: /search.php
Disallow: /viewforum,
Disallow: /viewforum.php
Disallow: /viewonline.php
Disallow: /viewtopic,
Disallow: /viewtopic.php

can u plz suggest

thanks

[experienced]

is there any problem in the robots file above...?

[benevolent001]

Did you installed some SEO mod for phpbb , just follow the instruction for that mod

Robots file need to block viewtopic as suggested

[experienced]

i have changed the robots file like this. will this work.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /faq.php
Disallow: /groupcp.php
Disallow: /login.php
Disallow: /memberlist.php
Disallow: /modcp.php
Disallow: /posting,
Disallow: /posting.php
Disallow: /privmsg,
Disallow: /privmsg.php
Disallow: /search.php
Disallow: /viewforum,
Disallow: /viewforum.php
Disallow: /viewonline.php
Disallow: /viewtopic,
Disallow: /viewtopic.php

User-agent: *
Disallow: /viewtopic
Disallow: /posting
Disallow: /viewforum
Disallow: /privmsg

appreciate your helpful coomments

thanks

[experienced]

sorry for asking so much but really i appreciate your helpful commenta on the attached issue.

[floriniri]

your first version of robots.txt should work. One thing though: how are those pages indexed? Just showing the link or are the pages showing completelly with title, description?

[experienced]

pages r indexed but viewtopics, post reply and view forums are also getting indexed although i have disallow them but still coming up.

the main static category, forum and post are coming properly but these viewtopics, post reply and view forums are coming as urls.
i dont want anything to be indexed only main static category, forum and post and user profiles.

what to do.

thanks

[Frank_Rizzo]

You probably need to give it more time.

At a guess the pages were indexed before you changed the robots.txt file. It could take some time for it to update.

[jdMorgan]

Up to 90 days...

Jim

[g1smd]

Pages that now show up as Supplemental Results will now take a year to drop out of the index.