help with duplicate content issue

[TheWebHead]

In wordpress I'm getting spiders coming up with URLs like this:
http://domain.com/page/4/?s=search+term

when it should only work with this url
http://domain.com/?s=search+term

So I'd like to do something like this:
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?s=(.*)?$ http://domain.com/?s=$1 [R=301,L]

but it doesn't work... help

[richardk]

Try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)(s=[^&]+)(&.*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.+$ /?%2 [R=301,L]

Do you have Wordpress mod_rewrite already? This should go first, and you do not need to repeat the Options or RewriteEngine lines.

[TheWebHead]

I came to realize after I posted this that it's probably a better idea just to exclude this in robots.txt. I have 60,000 posts and about 4,000 pages, so if this error worked itself out to a conclusion, googlebot would hammer my site even w/ 301s. Since there's nobody else linking to me like that, I don't have to worry about page rank issues, so robots.txt seems to be a better solution.