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How to notify Google that they have indexed a URL that does not exist?
Old 04-01-2011, 05:55 AM How to notify Google that they have indexed a URL that does not exist?
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Hello,

I have noticed that Google has indexed two versions of my home page URL.

One as the normal and one with the random characters ?.*$ attached to the end.

I am sure this would be diluting home page ranking strength.

When I click on this search result, the page seems to load fine with those extra characters attached. However, this page does not actually exist on our server.

The first advice I received was to add these characters into parameter handling into Google Webmaster Tools so I have done that, then someone else advised that this was likely not a parameter issue.

We actually had some other issues with duplicate URL's "....index.html" and "..../front.html". I have now added the canonical tag which I understand will fix this.

However, I am not sure about the above URL with the ?.*$ characters. Any advice?
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Old 04-01-2011, 06:07 AM Re: How to notify Google that they have indexed a URL that does not exist?
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Make it so they error out AND return a 404 response.
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