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Spammer Links

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 1:44 pm
by tubeman
Hi,
Some spammers are generating links to my sites like this:

http://www.domain.com/?min_duration=600
http://www.domain.com/?min_duration=300-600Free

Google indexing it as duplicate URL's. I even have canonical link but for some reason even the canonical link URL showing this kind of URL:
http://www.domain.com/?min_duration=600 instead of http://www.domain.com/.

How to solve this issue?

Re: Spammer Links

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 7:06 pm
by admin
Hi, how do you create canonical urls?

Re: Spammer Links

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 10:22 pm
by tubeman
Hi,
I use this:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://<?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']?><?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']?>" />

Re: Spammer Links

Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 1:57 pm
by admin
Well, you output REQUEST_URI .. what did you expect ..?

you can split it like

list($req, $params) = explode('?', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

echo $req;

Re: Spammer Links

Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 1:30 pm
by tubeman
Hi,
Now spammer target links like this:

http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=post

And there is Warning in source which google is spidering

<br />
<b>Warning</b>: A non-numeric value encountered in <b>/home/httpd/html/domain.com/public_html/scj/includes/libs/tpl_functions.php</b> on line <b>1827</b><br />

Any idea how to avoid this?

Regards,

Re: Spammer Links

Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 5:47 pm
by admin
lets start with the warning
did you try to run update?

Re: Spammer Links

Posted: Mon May 04, 2020 7:59 pm
by tubeman
Hi,
Thanks, after running update the warning is gone. But now in canonical url for:

http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=post

It shows canonical url :
http://www.domain.com/index.php

How to make it show:
http://www.domain.com

Also when spammers try to attack domain by using links that do not exist (like the above example) how can we send them to 404?

Re: Spammer Links

Posted: Mon May 04, 2020 8:23 pm
by admin
you output that url in your template so all you have to do is just change that part

Re: Spammer Links

Posted: Mon May 04, 2020 8:49 pm
by tubeman
Sorry, I didn't understand. Which part do I need to change and how?

Re: Spammer Links

Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 5:40 am
by admin
how do you output canonical url in template?