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        • Ria_
          Ria_ last edited by

          So I currently have approximately 1000 of these URLs indexed, when I only want roughly 100 of them.

          Let's say the URL is www.example.com/page.php?par1=ABC123=&par2=DEF456=&par3=GHI789=

          All the indexed URLs follow that same kinda format, but I only want to index the URLs that have a par1 of ABC (but that could be ABC123 or ABC456 or whatever). Using URL Parameters tool in Search Console, I can ask Googlebot to only crawl URLs with a specific value. But is there any way to get a partial match, using regex maybe?

          Am I wasting my time with Search Console, and should I just disallow any page.php without par1=ABC in robots.txt?

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          • Andy.Drinkwater
            Andy.Drinkwater @Ria_ last edited by

            No problem 🙂

            Hope you get it sorted!

            -Andy

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            • Ria_
              Ria_ @DirkC last edited by

              Thank you! 😄

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              • Ria_
                Ria_ @Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

                Haha, I think the train passed the station on that one. I would have realised eventually... XD

                Thanks for your help!

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                • DirkC
                  DirkC last edited by

                  Don't forget that . & ? have a specific meaning within regex - if you want to use them for pattern matching you will have to escape them. Also be aware that not all bots are capable of interpreting regex in robots.txt - you might want to be more explicit on the user agent - only using regex for Google bot.

                  User-agent: Googlebot

                  #disallowing page.php and any parameters after it

                  disallow: /page.php

                  #but leaving anything that starts with par1=ABC

                  allow: page.php?par1=ABC

                  Dirk

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                  • Andy.Drinkwater
                    Andy.Drinkwater @Ria_ last edited by

                    Ah sorry I missed that bit!

                    -Andy

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                    • Andy.Drinkwater
                      Andy.Drinkwater @Ria_ last edited by

                      Disallowing them would be my first priority really, before removing from index.

                      The trouble with this is that if you disallow first, Google won't be able to crawl the page to act on the noindex. If you add a noindex flag, Google won't index them the next time it comes-a-crawling and then you will be good to disallow 🙂

                      I'm not actually sure of the best way for you to get the noindex in to the page header of those pages though.

                      -Andy

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                      • Ria_
                        Ria_ @Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

                        Yep, have done. (Briefly mentioned in my previous response.) Doesn't pass 😞

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                        • Ria_
                          Ria_ @Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

                          I thought so too, but according to Google the trailing wildcard is completely unnecessary, and only needs to be used mid-URL.

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                          • Ria_
                            Ria_ @Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

                            Hi Andy,

                            Disallowing them would be my first priority really, before removing from index. Didn't want to remove them before I've blocked Google from crawling them in case they get added back again next time Google comes a-crawling, as has happened before when I've simply removed a URL here and there. Does that make sense or am I getting myself mixed up here?

                            My other hack of a solution would be to check the URL in the page.php, and if URL includes par1=ABC then insert noindex meta tag. (Not sure if that would work well or not...)

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                            • Martijn_Scheijbeler
                              Martijn_Scheijbeler @Ria_ last edited by

                              My guess would be that this line needs an * at the end.
                              Allow: /page.php?par1=ABC*

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                              • Andy.Drinkwater
                                Andy.Drinkwater @Ria_ last edited by

                                Sorry Martijn, just to jump in here for a second - Ria, you can test this via the Robots.txt testing tool in search console before going live to make sure it work.

                                -Andy

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                                • Ria_
                                  Ria_ @Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

                                  Hi Martijn, thanks for your response!

                                  I'm currently looking at something like this...

                                  **user-agent: *** #disallowing page.php and any parameters after it
                                  disallow: /page.php #but leaving anything that starts with par1=ABC
                                  allow: /page.php?par1=ABC

                                  I would have thought that you could disallow things broadly like that and give an exception, as you can with files in disallowed folders. But it's not passing Google's robots.txt Tester.

                                  One thing that's probably worth mentioning really is that there are only two variables that I want to allow of the par1 parameter. For example's sake, ABC123 and ABC456. So would need to be either a partial match or "this or that" kinda deal, disallowing everything else.

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                                  • Andy.Drinkwater
                                    Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

                                    Hi Ria,

                                    I have never tried regular expressions in this way, so I can't tell you if this would work or not.

                                    However, If all 1000 of these URL's are already indexed, just disallowing access won't then remove them from Google. You would ideally be able to place a noindex tag on those pages and let Google act on them, then you will be good to disallow. I am pretty sure there is no option to noindex under the URL Parameter Tool.

                                    I hope that makes sense?

                                    -Andy

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                                    • Martijn_Scheijbeler
                                      Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

                                      Hi Ria,

                                      What you could do, but it also depends on the rest of your structure is Disallow these urls based on the parameters (what you could do in a worst case scenario is that you would disallow all URLs and then put an exception Allow in there as well to make sure you still have the right URLs being indexed).

                                      Martijn.

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                                          >> South End Courses This would actually be very beneficial to our users from a usability standpoint, BUT what about from an SEO standpoint? Is diverting all the link juice to these inner pages from the main site navigation harmful?  Should we just create a page for GOLF PACKAGES and break it down on that page?

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