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          rahulchowdhury last edited by

          I have a blog dapazze.com and I am suffering from a problem for a long time. I found out that Google have indexed hundreds of replytocom links and images attachment pages for my blog.

          I had to remove these pages manually using the URL removal tool. I had used "Disallow: ?replytocom" in my robots.txt, but Google disobeyed it. After that, I removed the parameter from my blog completely using the SEO by Yoast plugin.

          But now I see that Google has again started indexing these links even after they are not present in my blog (I use #comment). Google have also indexed many of my admin and plugin pages, whereas they are disallowed in my robots.txt file.

          Have a look at my robots.txt file here: http://dapazze.com/robots.txt

          Please help me out to solve this problem permanently?

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          • Esaky
            Esaky @SoftzSolutions last edited by

            Me too have the same issue ! but not indexed in the Google ! but URL parameters in Google Webmasters shows there are 5K errors !

            Should i use the URL Parameters settings or which one ?

            Also make sure replytocom links are not blocked using Robots.txt, as it will stop Google bots from crawling and this your links won’t get deindexed. This is one mistake which I did, and later after removing replytocom parameter from robots.txt file, I was able to get most of my replytocom links deindexed. These are warning by the blogger ! http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-to-fix-replytocom-links-issue-in-wordpress.html - he showed how to do that ! but my problem is different - It's Good that it's not indexed but i don't want to take any risk ! how to avooid them for future !

            Someone else told me here that some plugins are doing/helping for you ! and not seen in your Robot.txt !

            Confused confused ! so much confused ! Please help me !

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            • rahulchowdhury
              rahulchowdhury @SoftzSolutions last edited by

              Actually previously I had removed the links manually. But I am seeing them come up again even after removing the parameter completely.

              Can you please point our the problem for me?

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              • SoftzSolutions
                SoftzSolutions last edited by

                Please check that the comment pages are blocked by robots.txt file -

                https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&ie=UTF-8#q=inurl:replytocom+site:http://dapazze.com/&hl=en&tbo=d&filter=0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.bmk&fp=8d5ddd2cfb254bfd&bpcl=40096503&ion=1&biw=1366&bih=677

                However, the blocked pages are now getting redirected to the main landing page of the blog posts.

                Seems like it will take a while for Google to recrawl these pages and sort the issue.

                In the mean time, could you please show some pages that are getting indexed by Google.

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