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. Intermediate & Advanced SEO
    4. No index.no follow certain pages

    No index.no follow certain pages

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO
    5 3 264
    • 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.
    • wood1e1968
      wood1e1968 last edited by

      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

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • Andy.Drinkwater
        Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

        I would just add anything from /call_backrequest.php to your robots.txt. This will stop it from every being indexed or crawled.

        Andy

        wood1e1968 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • wood1e1968
          wood1e1968 @Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

          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?

          StalkerB Andy.Drinkwater 2 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • StalkerB
            StalkerB @wood1e1968 last edited by

            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

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
            • Andy.Drinkwater
              Andy.Drinkwater @wood1e1968 last edited by

              Reply edited-

              Yes, I would also use this if possible:

              Disallow: /*?rid

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
              • 1 / 1
              • First post
                Last post
              • Index, follow on a paginated page with a different rel=canonical URL
                Nigel_Carr
                Nigel_Carr
                0
                2
                63

              • Best way to link to 1000 city landing pages from index page in a way that google follows/crawls these links (without building country pages)?
                lcourse
                lcourse
                0
                7
                54

              • How do we decide which pages to index/de-index? Help for a 250k page site
                julie-getonthemap
                julie-getonthemap
                0
                2
                63

              • What to do when your home page an index for a series of pages.
                donford
                donford
                0
                7
                154

              • "No index" page still shows in search results and paginated pages shows page 2 in results
                khi5
                khi5
                0
                3
                114

              • Rel=next/prev for paginated pages then no need for "no index, follow"?
                khi5
                khi5
                0
                5
                1.0k

              • Certain Pages Not Being Indexed - Please Help
                CBuy
                CBuy
                0
                6
                271

              • Why are new pages not being indexed, and old pages (now in robots.txt) remain in the index?
                KeriMorgret
                KeriMorgret
                0
                3
                378

              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

              Join our newsletter
              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