Print Button Creating Duplicate PDF URLs set to NoIndex, OK for SEO?
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Our real estate website has 400 listings. We have added a button that allows the visitor to print listing pages in the for.m of a PDF.
The PDF exists as a URL ending in ?print=17076. This print URL is set to noindex and follow.
So our site has 400 additional URLs. Is this a negative for SEO? Or neutral?
I have read it using CSS it is possible to set up printing without creating all these extra URLs. Is this method better from an SEO perspective?
Thanks,
Alan
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yea, wouldn't spend too much time recoding that then. i would still block the print pages via robots.txt so that they aren't crawled at all.
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Hi Oleg:
Thanks for your response!!
My preference would be to avoid any unnecessary URLs. But I am a business owner and not a coder.
My programmer believes that setting these pages to noindex is sufficient. They cite: https://blog.seoprofiler.com/google-noindexfollow-noindexnofollow-long-run/ [^]
Do you think that adding css/js a time consuming operation to replace the print pages?
Thanks,
Alan
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best not to generate a new url to follow. ideally, css / js would replace the url change functionality.
if you must generate the print page with a ?print variable, block it via robots.txt (Disallow: /?print= ) so that those pages aren't even crawled (having a noindex tag allows them to be crawled, just not indexed in search results)
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