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    • DigitalJungle
      DigitalJungle last edited by

      I believe Google doesn't want to index and show other search result pages in there SERP.
      So instead of adding "noindex, follow" tag i have changed the url  in my search result page  like this:

      Original
      http://www.mysite.com/kb-search.aspx?=travelguide&type=wiki&s=3

      To
      http://www.mysite.com/travelguide/attraction-guide.html

      And the search result page contains the title of the articles, a short descriptions (300 chars.) and a link to the articles.

      Does it help? Or should i add noindex, follow tag?

      Helps Please?

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      • Elchanan
        Elchanan last edited by

        You said "Google doesn't want to index and show other search result pages" but keep reading your email, you mean "site search", not Bing, right?

        I have ton of experience with site search boxes. My answer is to code kb-search.aspx to auto-generate the metatags and on-page for the keywords argument. Then, have a link like "what people are searching for" to a new SELECT
        aggregated page with anchor and links (50 max).

        Google loves it!

        DHDdF

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        • JoeAmadon
          JoeAmadon last edited by

          Changing the URL as you've done should help, but if it is still a search results page, Google won't want to show it, even though they don't put a lot into identifying internal search landing pages. So you should be fine with what you've done. If you feel these pages are really helpful and you'd like to land users on them, an improvement might be to create navigation to http://www.mysite.com/travelguide/attraction-guide.html and similar pages and redirect internal searches for relevant keywords to that page. This way the page is more than a search results page.

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