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		<title>IIS Flaw Causes Google duplicate content</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new site that our company is working on. I noticed that in google all of a sudden we have all of our pages listed in Google with very weird things added to our URLs. http://www.mysite.com/(A(XobqNFPtxwEkAAAAMzk3ZTU 4NzQtZGFjZS00OGUxLWExYzYtZDBiYjc1Mzg1N2YwP7fq1em0HKYJ5 vYMP8lm4NCf3241))/subdirectory/Default.aspx I found out that this works on any IIS server. Even on www.microsoft.com. I have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a new site that our company is working on.  I noticed that in google all of a sudden we have all of our pages listed in Google with very weird things added to our URLs.  </p>
<blockquote><p>http://www.mysite.com/(A(XobqNFPtxwEkAAAAMzk3ZTU<br />
4NzQtZGFjZS00OGUxLWExYzYtZDBiYjc1Mzg1N2YwP7fq1em0HKYJ5<br />
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<p>I found out that this works on any IIS server.   Even on www.microsoft.com.  I have no idea what this is.  I do know it is a bad thing for SEO and any site hosted on IIS needs to address this.  This goes back to what I say about site architecture.  Your site needs to have a URL policy set up and enforced.  Nobody can go to any page unless that URL is already known to the site owner.  This means no page can be access from 2 or more differnt urls.  The site owner needs to redirect any rogue URL to the correct one and 404 anything you can&#8217;t predict.  What this does is create duplicate content that the search engines do not like and can even hurt a sites rankings.</p>
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<p>From my testing I found that it follows rules.  (A(this-is_a-test)  The capital A can be any capital letter but will not work with lower case letters. You can put that inbetween any 2 forward slashes in a URL on IIS. Here are some tests using www.microsoft.com</p>
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<b>Works</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/(A(asdfa-123))/us/Default.aspx">(A(asdfa-123))</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/(A(asdfa-sdf))/us/Default.aspx">(A(asdfa-sdf))</a></p>
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<b>Does not work</b></p>
<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/(c(asdfasdf))/us/Default.aspx">(c(asdfasdf))</a><br />
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<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/(())/us/Default.aspx">(())</a><br />
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<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/(Z()a)/us/Default.aspx">(Z()a)</a><br />
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<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/(1(asdfasdf))/us/Default.aspx">(1(asdfasdf))</a><br />
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<p>You can do this on any IIS website from what I can see.  I even got it to work on myspace.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/(A(asdfa-123))/Modules/Search/Pages/Search.aspx?t=208,&#038;q=related:www.microsoft.com/default.aspx">http://www.myspace.com/(A(asdfa-123))/Modules/Search/Pages/Search.<br />
aspx?t=208,&#038;q=related:www.microsoft.com/default.aspx</a></p></blockquote>
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