No index.no follow certain pages
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Hi,
I want to stop Google et al from finding a some pages within my website.
the url is
www.mywebsite.com/call_backrequest.php?rid=14
As these pages are creating a lot of duplicate content issues.
Would the easiest solution be to place a 'Nofollow/Noindex' META tag in page
www.mywebsite.com/call_backrequest.php
many thanks in advance
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I would just add anything from /call_backrequest.php to your robots.txt. This will stop it from every being indexed or crawled.
Andy
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ok, that's the bit I was unsure of. Hence why I was going to add it to the page.
So what do I put in robots.txt for this page?
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /call_backrequest.php*Should work

However if the 'rid' parameter is only used here you might want this instead
Disallow: /*?rid
If 'rid' is used elsewhere that you want indexed, then don't do that.
You could also exclude the 'rid' parameter in WMT - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1235687
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Yes, I would also use this if possible:
Disallow: /*?rid