Multiple values for a single URL parameter - Is that possible?

[himanshupatil]

I have a website which supports three languages - German, Spanish, Portuguese - by using language parameters.

How do I configure my URL parameters so that the only the Spanish and Portuguese URLs are crawled but not the German URLs. Basically, how do i specify two values for a single parameter.

[Nobody1560986989723]

I know you posted this a while ago, but I've just seen it.

The simplest way would be to generate your ROBOTS meta tag based on the parameter. I code in PHP so this is my example, but it will depend on your platform

Say your URL is domain.com?lang=es or ?lang=po or ?lang=de

$lang = $_GET['lang'];

if($lang=="de"){ echo ''; }

else{ echo ''; }

I left 'follow' in the German line because you may already have pages in the index, so this means Google DE has free reign over all your site, but any pages it finds should not be indexed.

If the site's not live yet, then you can change the 'follow' in the DE line to 'nofollow'.

Hope this helps.

[Nobody1560986989723]

I know you posted this a while ago, but I've just seen it.

The simplest way would be to generate your ROBOTS meta tag based on the parameter. I code in PHP so this is my example, but it will depend on your platform

Say your URL is domain.com?lang=es or ?lang=po or ?lang=de

$lang = $_GET['lang'];

if($lang=="de"){ echo ''; }

else{ echo ''; }

I left 'follow' in the German line because you may already have pages in the index, so this means Google DE has free reign over all your site, but any pages it finds should not be indexed.

If the site's not live yet, then you can change the 'follow' in the DE line to 'nofollow'.

Hope this helps.