Robots.txt - What is the correct syntax?
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Hello everyone
I have the following link:
http://mywebshop.dk/index.php?option=com_redshop&view=send_friend&pid=39&tmpl=component&Itemid=167
I want to prevent google from indiexing everything that is related to "view=send_friend"
The problem is that its giving me dublicate content, and the content of the links has no SEO value of any sort.
My problem is how i disallow it correctly via robots.txt
I tried this syntax:
Disallow: /view=send_friend/
However after doing a crawl on request the 200+ dublicate links that contains view=send_friend is still present in the CSV crawl report.
What is the correct syntax if i want to prevent google from indexing everything that is related to this kind of link?
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I added your suggestion to robots.txt and requested a crawl again.
I only have 3 pages with dublicate page content now
So your suggestion seemes to have worked.
Thanks for your reply.. it worked!
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you are right. misinterpreted the explanation. Apologies
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Jarno,
The $ would suggest this parameter is always on the end of a URL. And within Henrik's example it's already somewhere in the middle of the URL.
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Henrik,
i think you should be looking into something like this:
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*view=send_friend$hope this helps
Kind regards
Jarno
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Hi Henrik,
I would suggest trying: Disallow: &view=send_friend
Optional you could try this without the & as I'm not sure this is always at the start of this parameter.Hope this helps!
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