Forum VB Friendly URLs and Duplicate Content?
 

Hi,

By default it looks like vb4 uses "basic friendly URLs". I might be part of the minority, but I'd prefer the standard URLs so I have chosen that setting instead. My only worry is it appears that even though you've chosen standard URLs, both the basic and advanced friendly URLs still work. For instance, if my first thread was titled "First Post" and I have selected standard URLs, I would browse to that page with the URL "showthread.php?t=1", but using "showthread.php?1-First-Post" and "showthread.php/1-First-Post" formats still work. In fact even using a URL such as "showthread.php?1-random-gibberish-fdsfsdfds" would still direct to that first post. Just wondering if search engines would see this as duplicate content?

Assuming that search engines wouldn't see it as duplicate content and that it's not really a problem, is there a way I can remove this behaviour anyways? I'd much prefer that other URL formats would go to a 404 or invalid thread page.

Thanks.