How to fix Overly Dynamic Urls

[DrMcCoy]

it looks like MOZ is showing one I have an Overly Dynamic Url.  I use Volusion.  The url is

http://www.bestfitbybrazil.com/NEW-ARRIVALS-s/1931.htm?searching=Y&sort=4&cat=1931&show=300&page=1

How do i get rid of this?  Its not even a page.  its a query.  the page part is as follows

http://www.bestfitbybrazil.com/NEW-ARRIVALS-s/1931.htm.

Everything after is some kind of query.  Do I need to enter the entire link as a dissallow in robot text or contact volusion?  Not sure how much help they would be since MOZ is showing this

[DrMcCoy]

Thanks guys and gals. turns out Volusion admin interface gets crawled whether you hide or not using created content on website.  I was able to manually find it in admin area.  Not even on website, but in admin area saved.  so modified link.

[JaneCopland]

Hi Robert,

The canonical tag is in place on the dynamic URL, meaning that Google is assigning that "page"'s value to the correct, static URL. As such, this shouldn't be a problem for Google. Not sure why Moz is still flagging this, but my guess is that the Moz system is not set up to disregard overly dynamic URLs when they are properly canonicalised elsewhere. The Moz system likely understands that this isn't duplicate content, however, due to the canonical tag. The dynamic URL warning is just being triggered regardless.

If all your dynamic URLs are canonicalised like this to their proper canonical, static version, you should not have a problem with Google.

Cheers,

Jane

[mosquitohawk]

Just a quick note, adding it to robots.txt instructs the crawlers not to crawl the URL, but it can still be indexed if it is being linked to from other places (and probably is if Moz crawler is finding it).

The easiest way to solve the problem if you don't want them indexed is to edit your search results page template and add a meta noindex to the .

I personally don't like to see search results surfaced to search engines (unless there's a strategic reason for doing so).

[kwoolf]

Since your using Volusion, you'll need to check their documentation and contact their support to see what can be done. You can certainly add parameters and tell GWT how to handle these search and sort URLs, and you can edit your robots.txt to block search engines from indexing those overly dynamic pages.

Maybe you can turn off the sorting, pagination, and search features if you don't need them, but do it to improve the visitor experience, not for the search engines.

But I doubt those pages get indexed by Google now anyway, so don't worry too much. These aren't going to hurt your rank for the majority of your key words and target pages (unless of course your key word is "searching").