: Seo Fake backlinking from other sites The title might be a little bit confusing. Well, I noticed that someone had used a page's URL for backlinking or indexing his keywords. This is what he

@BetL925

This is a good reason to put a canonical tag in each of your pages. If example.com/Default.aspx has a canonical tag like <link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/Default.aspx"/>then when somebody links to example.com/Default.aspx?places-to-buy-wedding-dresses it will also have that canonical url. Googlebot will see the canonical, and only index the page without the extra parameter.

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@Radia820

You cant physically stop people back linking to you using made up variables such as ?string, and #strings but you can rewrite these requests using 301's.

ASP.NET Site

If you don't have NUGET already I suggest you get as it contains lots of packages that you can explore and solve little questions like this with.

Using NUGET you can get ASP.NET Friendly URLS which will remove default.asp?strings or search for rewriting solutions that can remove pages that don't actually exist with a redirecting 404 page.

Apache Site

If you just linked an example that happens to be ASPX based then you will need a different solution for apache which is more likely to be your hosting if you don't use aspx. You need to use mod_rewrite and use the htaccess to remove strings using conditional rewrites.

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