Blocking Google from Crawling Parameters

[DanaDV]

Hi guys:

What is the best way to keep Google from crawling certain urls with parameters? I used the setting in Webmaster Tools, but that doesn't seem to be helping at all. Can I use robots.txt or some other method? Thanks!

Some examples are:

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www.mayer-johnson.com/category/assistive-technology?manufacturer=179
www.mayer-johnson.com/category/assistive-technology?manufacturer=226

www.mayer-johnson.com/category/assistive-technology?manufacturer=227

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www.mayer-johnson.com/category/english-language-learners?condition=212
www.mayer-johnson.com/category/english-language-learners?condition=213

www.mayer-johnson.com/category/english-language-learners?condition=214

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| www.mayer-johnson.com/category/english-language-learners?roles=164 |
| www.mayer-johnson.com/category/english-language-learners?roles=165 |
| www.mayer-johnson.com/category/english-language-learners?roles=197 |

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[wissamdandan]

Yes you can block it thew robots.txt and also by Adding a rel="canonical" link in the page code itself will accomplish the task.

Disallow: /category/english-language-learners/*?

[DanaDV]

Thanks. I didn't want to use rel="canonical" because there are thousands of variations of these parameters, and it would be time consuming, to say the least.

[DanaDV]

So, for example, it would look like this?:

Disallow:?condition=

Disallow: ?cat=

[wissamdandan]

No,

Disallow ?condition=

Disallow ?cat=

Disallow ?instructional_level=

[DanaDV]

Thanks,  Wissam!

[wissamdandan]

anytime Dana