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    • 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?

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      • 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

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        • 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.

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