Can duplicate [*] reports be suppressed?
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That's the best question could come up with! Have searched but can't find any info.
New user: First crawl error report show listings of pages with same titles/descriptions. In reality they are all the same page but with different parameters eg
Email_Me_When_Back_In_Stock.asp?productId=xxxxxxxxx etc
These have been excluded in both robots.txt (for some time ie disallow: /*?)and google webmaster tools (just done).
Will they still show in updated report and if so is there a way to suppress them if the issues have been rectified as can be done in webmaster tools.
Is there a way to test to see if they are being excluded by robots.txt and GWT?
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