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    • monster99
      monster99 last edited by

      Hi i have a site which i'm dealing with that has tag pages for instant -

      http://www.domain.com/news/?tag=choice

      How can i exclude these tag pages (about 20+ being crawled and indexed by the search engines with robot.txt

      Also sometimes they're created dynamically so i want something which automatically excludes tage pages from being crawled and indexed.

      Any suggestions?

      Cheers,

      Mark

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      • monster99
        monster99 @monster99 last edited by

        Hi Nakul, its Drupal

        Mark

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        • NakulGoyal
          NakulGoyal @monster99 last edited by

          What CMS is it Mark ?

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          • monster99
            monster99 @DeanAndrews last edited by

            Thanks, is there a way to test it out before actually implementing it with the site.

            The site is non-wordpress aswell.

            Cheers,

            Mark

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            • NakulGoyal
              NakulGoyal last edited by

              I agree. I would suggest adding the noindex on the pages and letting the bots crawl them. Blocking them would prevent future crawl of these pages, but I am guessing you would also want to remove the existing pages.

              Therefore add the noindex first, wait a few days and then add the disallow (Although technically if they are noindex, you don't really need the disallow).

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              • DeanAndrews
                DeanAndrews last edited by

                Hi Mark

                If your using Wordpress then I would recommend SEO Yoast to resolve the tag issue. If not then I suggest you amend the robots.txt file to resolve.

                Here is an example:

                Disallow: /?tag=
                Disallow: /
                ?subcats=
                Disallow: /*?features_hash=

                NOTE:

                Be very careful when blocking search engines. Test and test again!

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