Links in my website are indexed as separate pages

[jomin74]

Hi All,

We have pages which has names of people which we have created a Alink when clicked it goes to the related persons name.

Now Google has indexed it as a seperate page example

www.xyz.com/person/name

www.xyz.com/person/name?alinks

Now the same page is seen in google 2 times. How can i handle this please

[taryn_s]

Hi Riccardo,

There are couple of errors with your code there. Firstly, the noindex attribute is used at a page level, not link level. If you want to noindex a page you should use the meta robots tag on the page itself. There is more information on the meta robots tag here. The nofollow attribute however, can be used at link level. You're essentially telling the search engines not to crawl this link.

Secondly, the attribute isn't wrapped around any text so it's wasted code having it there. If you want your anchor text, 'Kumar' to be in italics, you should close the tag after the word. Also, replacing the tag with an tag (short for emphasis) is considered good practice.

____Finally, try not to use spaces in your anchor text. Modifying your code in this way will give you this:

If you want the anchor text to be in italics:
Kumar

If you do not want the anchor text to be in italics:
Kumar

If you're interested in learning more about HTML (it's really easy!) W3C Schools is a good place to start.

Happy coding!____

[jomin74]

Thanks

Kumar

Would a line as this be ok?

[DirkC]

It's probably an error in the code - best way to solve it is to check the code where the link originates & correct it.

Alternative would be to put a canonical on www.xyz.com/person/name pointing to itself (www.xyz.com/person/name) - normally the www.xyz.com/person/name?alinks should then have the canonical as well pointing to www.xyz.com/person/name

Without have the site itself it's difficult to tell which the error is.

rgds,

Dirk