Robots.txt & Disallow: /*? Question!
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Hi,
I have a site where they have:
Disallow: /*?
Problem is we need the following indexed:
?utm_source=google_shopping
What would the best solution be? I have read:
User-agent: *
Allow: ?utm_source=google_shopping
Disallow: /*?Any ideas?
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User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /archives/ Disallow: /? Allow: /comments/feed/ Disallow: /refer/ Disallow: /index.php Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Image Allow: /wp-content/uploads/ User-agent: Adsbot-Google Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile Allow: / Sitemap: https://site.com/sitemap_index.xml
use this it will help you and your problem will solve
Regards
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User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /archives/ Disallow: /? Allow: /comments/feed/ Disallow: /refer/ Disallow: /index.php Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Image Allow: /wp-content/uploads/ User-agent: Adsbot-Google Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile Allow: / Sitemap: https://site.com/sitemap_index.xml
this will work ??
Regards
Sajad -
User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /archives/ Disallow: /*?* Allow: /comments/feed/ Disallow: /refer/ Disallow: /index.php Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Image Allow: /wp-content/uploads/ User-agent: Adsbot-Google Allow: / User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile Allow: / Sitemap: https://site.com/sitemap_index.xml use this it will help you Regards [Saad](https://clicktestworld.com/)
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Hi Jeff,
Robots.txt tester as per the above link is definitely worth playing with and is the easiest route to achieving what you want.
Another reactive way of managing this is in some cases is to simply see the range of parameters Google has naturally crawled within Search Console.
You can see this in the old search console for now. So login and go to Crawl --> URL Parameters.
If Googlebot has encountered any ?=params it will list them. You'll then have an option how to manage them or exclude them from the index.
It can be a decent way of cleaning up a site with lot's of indexed pages (1,000+), although please be sure to read this documentation before using it: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6080548?hl=en
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With this kind of thing, it's really better to pick the specific parameters (or parameter combinations) which you'd like to exclude, e.g:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /shop/product/&size=*
Disallow: */shop/product/*?size=*
Disallow: /stockists?product=*
^ I just took the above from a robots.txt file which I have been working on, as these particular pages don't have 'pretty' URLs with unique content on. Very soon now that will change and the blocks will be lifted
If you are really 100% sure that there's only one param which you want to let through, then you'd go with:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /?
Allow: /?utm_source=google_shopping
Allow: /*&utm_source=google_shopping*
(or something pretty similar to that!)
Before you set anything live, get down a list of URLs which represent the blocks (and allows) which you want to achieve. Test it all with the Robots.txt tester (in Search Console) before you set anything live!
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