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Yeah i was thinking the same....

The interesting thing is we've removed the redirect page a week ago and replaced it with javascript redirect code. is that a good practice?

Thanks Ryan for the response. We'll surely prevent crawling of search result pages. Please check below points too. Thanks!!!

1. The cache page shows merchant product page in full version as well as in text-only version.
2. The title shown on the result page is also of the merchant's product page title.
3. One thing on the comparison price page is merchants are redirected to their respective websites, the links are nofollow, but redirect page is indexed even after having it on robots.txt and noindex on redirect page.
4. The redirect page is indexed like mywebsite.com/redirect-50187889-0
5. Comparison listing is not similar to internal search result page but result pages are crawl-able.

no iFrames being used.

Hi,

One of our websites, which is actually a price comparison engine, facing indexing problem at Google.

When we check “site:mywebsite.com “, there are lots of pages indexed which are not from mywebsite.com but from merchants websites. The index result page also shows merchant’s page title. In some cases the title is from merchant’s site but when the given link is accessed it points to mywebsite.com/index. Also the cache displays the merchant’s product page as the last indexed version rather than showing ours.

The mywebsite.com has quite few Merchants that send us their product feed. Those products are listed on comparison page with prices. The merchant’s links on comparison page are all no-follow links but some of the (not all) merchant’s product pages are indexed against mywebsite.com as mentioned above instead of product comparison page of mywebsite.com

How can we fix the issue?

Thanks!