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[shimlad]

Ok, i think i know the answer to this but would like further clarification on best practice if possible please guys .

at the minute our website has a 301 redirect in place, from /index.php to the absolute url. (Great!)

However i have recently noticed if you put any variation of words after the / and it them with .php our website currently just displays a version of the homepage

Surely this will look like duplicate content?! Should this instead be returning a 404 or redirecting back to the absolute url via a 301?

[shimlad]

further to this ive just noticed that also www.example.com/?source=anotherexample.com is showing my homepage and even has PR of 1 !

[Jill]

Should this instead be returning a 404 or redirecting back to the absolute url via a 301?

Yes it should be returning a 404.

[shimlad]

Yes it should be returning a 404.

i thought so, thank you.