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SER appends "RK=0/RS" to URL's, what causes this?

DeltaDelta
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Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone knows what feature (or if its a feature) that causes the string "RK=0/RS" to be appended to URL's?

It's not clear if this is specific to SER or not, however Google returns a lot of site owner complaints: https://www.google.com/search?q="RK=0/RS"

I'm asking because it seems some spam plugins are triggering on this string now, and causing autosubmitted complaints. We'd like to disable this if possible.

Thanks.

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  • cherubcherub UK
    I believe that may come from scraping Yahoo search results. Do a search on Yahoo (yeah when was the last time anyone did that!) and check the urls for each of the results. They have the 'RK=0/' etc string that needs filtering out.
  • DeltaDelta
    Looks like you're right, thanks!
  • cherubcherub UK
    But wow, looking at the search results for that url parameter on Google really shows you how much of the internet SER (or other Yahoo scrapers) is touching!
  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de
    hmm where should SER add that? In target URLs?
  • jpvr90jpvr90
    @Sven That's from Yahoo search scraping. Scrapebox adds the same thing to the end of all scraped URL's. Maybe Yahoo made a change.
  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de
    ok will try to resolve this.
  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de

    fixed in next version. Or who want to fix it himself can add:

    preparse replace=/RK=;"x="

    to each yahoo search engine in se.dat

  • DeltaDelta
    Hi Sven,

    It looks like this started happening again in the latest update, is there anyway you can check? (It may have something to do with a URL already ending in a /, so it ends up being //RK=, but I'm not certain.)

    Thanks again.
  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de
    that would get replaced as well.
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