The Moz Q&A Forum

    • Forum
    • Questions
    • My Q&A
    • Users
    • Ask the Community

    Welcome to the Q&A Forum

    Browse the forum for helpful insights and fresh discussions about all things SEO.

    1. SEO and Digital Marketing Q&A Forum
    2. Categories
    3. Technical SEO Issues
    4. How to do a no follow on site search

    How to do a no follow on site search

    Technical SEO Issues
    3 2 514
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as question
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • Apptixweb
      Apptixweb last edited by

      We have a site search that is causing a huge amount of errors as the SEOmoz crawler is showing these as duplicate content. Our first thought was to do a no-follow on the site-search directory, but we realized that the site search is /site-search.aspx and URl strings appear at the end for hundreds of pages.

      How dow we/how can we no-follow an undetermined amount of URL strings?

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • AlanMosley
        AlanMosley last edited by

        Are you sure you want to no follow, i would think that no index would be better, let them follow so that links can be found and link juice flow.

        in robots.txt add
        disallow/ site-search

        Apptixweb 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • Apptixweb
          Apptixweb @AlanMosley last edited by

          Thanks for the tip Alan!

          SEOmoz is showing errors for all of these as it is causing duplicate content. We just launched a new site with a CMS and the search is a bit different than our old site. The site search has also inflated our site from roughly 400 pages to over 2500 in SEOmoz.

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • 1 / 1
          • First post
            Last post
          • Moving from no follow to follow links on our eCommerce site
            RebekahVP
            RebekahVP
            0
            4
            38

          • Site Search Box
            katemorris
            katemorris
            0
            5
            167

          • No follow links from ban sites
            David-Kley
            David-Kley
            0
            3
            111

          • Google Site Search
            dotfly
            dotfly
            0
            2
            77

          • Following same SEO strategy for my new site which is related to my other site topic is good?
            rimon5693
            rimon5693
            0
            3
            315

          • Why is an error page showing when searching our website using Google "site:" search function?
            TheDude
            TheDude
            0
            3
            281

          • No follow and do follow on wordpress
            casper434
            casper434
            0
            3
            434

          • If you have multiple Web sites, utilizing great root domains to rank organically for varying terms, is it against Google search policy if each site basically offers the same service?
            ChrisClever
            ChrisClever
            0
            3
            810

          Get started with Moz Pro!

          Unlock the power of advanced SEO tools and data-driven insights.

          Start my free trial
          Products
          • Moz Pro
          • Moz Local
          • Moz API
          • Moz Data
          • STAT
          • Product Updates
          Moz Solutions
          • SMB Solutions
          • Agency Solutions
          • Enterprise Solutions
          • Digital Marketers
          Free SEO Tools
          • Domain Authority Checker
          • Link Explorer
          • Keyword Explorer
          • Competitive Research
          • Brand Authority Checker
          • Local Citation Checker
          • MozBar Extension
          • MozCast
          Resources
          • Blog
          • SEO Learning Center
          • Help Hub
          • Beginner's Guide to SEO
          • How-to Guides
          • Moz Academy
          • API Docs
          About Moz
          • About
          • Team
          • Careers
          • Contact
          Why Moz
          • Case Studies
          • Testimonials
          Get Involved
          • Become an Affiliate
          • MozCon
          • Webinars
          • Practical Marketer Series
          • MozPod
          Connect with us

          Contact the Help team

          Moz logo
          © 2021 - 2026 SEOMoz, Inc., a Ziff Davis company. All rights reserved. Moz is a registered trademark of SEOMoz, Inc.
          • Accessibility
          • Terms of Use
          • Privacy