Blocking internal search results
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Hello Everyone,
Does anyone know how I can block Google from indexing internal search results?
Thanks.
Ryan
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Hi John, That helps. I read about that Yoest site. But I am not using Wordpress. I was a big fan of WordPress for almost a decade. But I got frustrated with it in the end. So I need to find a way around it.
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Hey Ryan!
These are author and tag pages in WordPress. There are plugins such as All in One SEO that allow you to no-index categories and tags by default. The Yoast one may have this too.
In the meantime, you can go into the search console and ask to have those pages removed from the index (do it in Bing too). I would install or modify a WP plugin to no-index these author and tag pages and you should be good to go.
I hope that helps!
[All In One SEO screen shot](All In One SEO screen shot)
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Hi John,
Please see attached screenshot here: https://screencast.com/t/u2WzJHzL
Google Search Console sent me a warning email to look at these links. An example is this one which is actually a search of author: https://gcse.co.uk/gcse-blog/?author=5bccc44d71c10b128276d958
Do you know how I can fix this?
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Hey Ryan! Can you paste a few examples of pages that Google is displaying?
Thanks,
John
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