How to no index search pages

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  • Resolved Ed Goldswain

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi. Firstly, love the plugin!

    I wondered if there’s a feature that would allow me to automatically add a noindex/nofollow tag to all pages on my site that have a certain URL element.

    The specific use case is that my site has a search box on every page, which when crawled leads to a duplicate page on a different URL. I’ve added a noindex to the search box, and all dupe pages are canonicalised, but I’d like to also add a noindex and no follow to these canonicalised pages, just to be extra safe!

    Example URLs below.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Ed Goldswain.
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  • Michael Davis

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

    Rank math has an option to noindex Search results. You can enable the option in Rank math > Titles & Meta > Misc Pages
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    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Ed Goldswain

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Thanks Michael, yes, I have this option enabled already… but the example URL I’ve provided that ends in ?s= isn’t actually a search results page, just access by spiders via the search box on each page.

    Alberto

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    I think the best way to disallow indexing those URLs would be adding the following line to your robots.txt file:

    Disallow: /*?s=$

    Looking forward to help you.

    Ed Goldswain

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Ah yes, of course. That should do the trick – appreciate the help!

    Uzair

    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

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    If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

    Thank you.

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