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Google double-indexing my ASP? pages

[flyerguy]

I have a storefront with many dynamic URLs in the following style:

www.example.com/default.asp?pg=products&specific=3901392

My main homepage has a PR4, and up til today I thought all my dynamic product pages had PR0. By chance I came across someone in my logs using a URL in the following style:

www.example.com/?pg=products&specific=3901392

The 'default.asp' is omitted. This of course still serves up the same content as default.asp is a standard root file on my server. However, this typing of the URL returns a PR4! In fact, almost every single page has a PR4.

What is strange is that I make no links in my site without the 'default.asp', as well, google lists all these URLs in the SERPs with the 'default.asp' included.

The pages behave as if they have a PR4, traffic-wise, that's why I always thought it was strange that they would have no PR displayed..

What is the quickest, non-SERP wrecking, way to fix this double-indexing issue? I have spent 6 months SEOing this project, I really want to avoid a file rename or something that sends everything back to square one..

[edited by: pageoneresults at 3:22 pm (utc) on Aug. 22, 2004]
[edit reason] Examplified URI References [/edit]

[killroy]

Since google collapses root files and teh root itself, there isn't really anything you need to do. To neaten it up, it's a good strategy to link to root files ALWAYS without the filname, i.e. change your links to href="?blah=blah" without the default part. As you're doing it right now yo completely defeat the purpose of the root files, i.e. that they can be omited.

SN

[flyerguy]

I was considering that, I could change all the links in the site to omit the default.asp, but i'm wondering if this could cause Google to drop the rankings for these pages, since they display the default.asp in their search pages.

Or for that matter, what about other engines who may have the pages referenced with the root file name? Is it standard procedure to omit the common root names or is it only google?

Thanks