Loads of Blog Search Results showing up in SERPs - What's the best way to remove?
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Our client has a good number of results showing up in SERPs that are search results pages produced by Blog posts. Unfortunately all these results have exactly the same Title tag and it has nothing to do with the blog content which means they are unlikely to help us much.
We can’t create a 301 redirect because there is no page to redirect. There is no blog page we can re=canonical to either.
The content on these pages is a short list of blog posts by each author. They are not true “Author” pages that would have a URL structure like this: your company.com/author/joeblow
Our plan is to use GWMT's URL removal tool to request remove of these pages. (and then try to stop new results from being created)
We are doing this to get low-value content out of the SERP. Is there a better way to remove these search results? Any drawback in removing them in GWMTs?
Thanks.
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Removing them through GWMT won't do you much good, I believe. Google will re-crawl your site and re-index them.
Do the URLs contain specific query parameters? If so, you can tell Google to ignore URLs with specific queries and that should prevent them from being indexed.
GWMT > Crawl > URL Parameters
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