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    Is it possible to have the crawler exclude urls with specific arguments?

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    • djangojunkie
      djangojunkie last edited by

      Is it possible to exclude specific urls in the crawl that contain certain arguments - like you can do in google webmaster tools?

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      • Nobody1560986989723
        Nobody1560986989723 last edited by

        You will need to do a block in your robots.txt based on a match:

        **User-agent: ***
        Disallow: /variable=

        I think the above would work.

        The other approach would be to add a line in your page code itself to generate a 'nofollow' robots tag when that argument is present.

        This link should help you, by the way:

        http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156449

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