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    What URL parameter settings in GWT to choose for search results parameter?

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    • poiseo
      poiseo last edited by

      Hello,we're about to disallow search results from crawling in robots.txt, but in GWT we have to specify URL parameters.

      URLs with 'search' parameter look like these: http://www.example.com/?search=keyword

      So in GWT we're setting the following parameter: search

      Question, what settings to set for it?

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      • Ray-pp
        Ray-pp last edited by

        if you'd like to instruct Google not to crawl the URLs with that parameter, select 'No URLs' in the Google Webmaster Tools > URL Parameters section.

        Still, this is a guide for Google to follow and they do not always follow the rules set. Going the robots.txt method ensures that Google will not crawl those URLs.

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