Google’s Advice on Fixing Unwanted Indexed URLs – Search Engine Journal
Google’s John Mueller offered advice on what to do when Google indexes duplicate URLs with query parameters
An SEO posted details about a site audit in which he critiqued the use of a rel=canonical for controlling what pages are indexed on a site. The SEO proposed using noindex to get the pages dropped from Google’s index and then adding the individual URLs to robots.txt. Google’s John Mueller suggested a solution that goes in a different direction.
Site Audit Reveals Indexed Add To Cart URLs
An SEO audit uncovered that over half of the client’s 1.43k indexed pages were paginated and “add to shopping cart” URLs (the kind with question marks at the end of them). Google ignored the rel=canonical link attributes and indexed the pages, which illustrated the point that rel=canonical is just a hint and not a directive. Paginated in this case just means the dynamically generated URLs related to when a site visitor orders a page by brand or size or…
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