Yahoo indexing my PPC destination URL's

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Yahoo indexing my PPC destination URL's

Is this bad?

ddogg

7:15 pm on May 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

All of my ppc destination url's for a particular site of mine have parameters appended to them for tracking purposes. Yahoo! is however indexing these 'pages', which are all going to my home page. The page has a different title and heading per url. I am worried Yahoo! is going to think these are doorway pages and ban me. Anyone ever deal with this? I have little faith Y! is smart enough to know these are ppc url's, yet I don't want to do a 301 re-direct for Slurp because that could cause other problems for all I know.

Example:

www.site.com/?trackingcode=CODE&pagetitle=My+Title

I have thousands of these and Y! is picking them up.

le_gber

1:27 pm on May 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

Are these appended vars hard coded by you in the YSM control panel for each keyword or are these added by yahoo automatically?

If the former, why not use yahoo's automatic tracking of ads?

jimbeetle

1:49 pm on May 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

Alternatively, check how Y! handles wildcards in robots.txt. Depending on how your site is structured you might be able to disallow those URLs.

ddogg

7:57 pm on May 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

That is precisely what I was looking for, thanks.

jd01

11:15 pm on May 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

How about a little php?

<? if(isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) && !empty($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
$noindex_duplicates="<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,nofollow,noarchive\" />";
?>

Then in the html
<head>
<?= noindex_duplicates;?>
</head>

Justin