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    • Tonyd23
      Tonyd23 last edited by

      Greeting,

      Currently I have noticed that Google is starting to index our internal search page results.  Should I block those pages in our robot txt file or have you ever heard of any websites that actually gained traffic or rank by letting Google index those pages?

      Thanks

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      • wissamdandan
        wissamdandan last edited by

        Yes you should block these pages.

        This is a quote from Matt Cutts concerning this issue

        Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines

        Disallow: /search

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