Question

I’m using http://urlrewriter.net/ to rewrite urls at my website. For example, I’m rewriting:

http://www.example.com/schedule.aspx?state=ca

to

http://www.example.com/california.aspx

What I’m trying to do (for SEO purposes) to to dynamically add the meta tag:

<meta name='robots' content='noindex,follow' /> 

only to the page that hasn’t been rewritten. This is because I want both URLs to work, but only the rewritten one to be indexed by search engines.

How do I determine which version of the page has been requested?

EDIT

Answers below suggest a 301 redirect instead of using a meta tag. Maybe I’ll do this, but I still want to know the answer to the underlying question… how do I know if the page has been rewritten?

Answer 1

personally, I would 301 redirect from the un-rewritten one to the re-written one, and only use the single copy of the page. It is easier for users, and from an SEO perspective, you have 1 copy of the content.