Query results being indexed and providing no value to real estate website - best course of action?

[JustinMurray]

Hi friends, I have a real estate website that has thousands of these type of query results pages indexed - http://search.myrealestatewebsite.com/l/43453/New_York_City_Rentals?per=100&start=159

What would be the best course of action to ensure those do not get indexed, as most provide no value whatsoever.

1. I'm limited to what I can do in the IDX, but I do believe I can modify the URL parameters for the website in Webmaster tools? Would this be correct? What would my parameter look like?

2. I have a webmaster tools for the website, then also the subdomain, which one would I submit the url parameter, or both?

[MichaelC-15022]

Ideally, you'd set the meta robots in that page to noindex,follow.  This will allow link juice to flow from all of those pages to the pages in your main navigation as well as removing them from the index.

If you cannot modify the section of those pages, then, at a minimum, you could tell Webmaster Tools to ignore the pre and start parameters (specify that the parameter merely sorts the data on the page).  Then, you'd end up with just 1 page indexed per city, which is probably a lot better than where you are now.