Canonicalisation and Dynamic Pages

[TrueluxGroup]

We have an e-commerce single page app hosted at https://www.whichledlight.com and part of this site is our search results page (http://www.whichledlight.com/t/gu10-led-bulbs?fitting_eq=GU10). To narrow down products on the results we make heavy use of query parameters. From an SEO perspective we are telling GoogleBot to not index pages that include these query parameters to prevent duplicate content issues and to not index pages where the combination of query parameters has resulted in no results being returned. The only exception to this is the page parameter.

We are posting here to check our homework so to speak. Does the above sound sensible? Although we have told GoogleBot to not index these pages, Moz will still crawl them (to the best of my knowledge), so we will continue to see crawl errors within our Moz reports where in fact these issues don't exist. Is this true? Is there anyway to make Moz ignore pages with certain query parameters?

Any other suggestions to improve the SEO of our results pages is most appreciated. Thanks

[JordanLowry]

I found quite a few query parameters being indexed by Google. They are showing up within the serps you can view this by going to Google and searching for site:whichledlight.com. I would either canonicalize those pages or update your robots.txt file to address the issue.

Also your robots.txt might need to be updated right now it reads:

# User-agent: *
# Disallow: /

[TrueluxGroup]

Thanks for the reply. The change we made in Webmaster Tools to ignore query parameters was only does yesterday, so I guess it makes sense they still appear right now>

Are there any implications to updating our robots.txt to prevent further crawls of these pages?

[JordanLowry]

Yes but currently your robots.txt file is set to block access to your entire site from search engines. You can block those query parameters though within a robots.txt file.

[TrueluxGroup]

Hi there!

(sorry this is someone else at Truelux.. the original poster of this question is currently driving somewhere )

As far as I know.. our robots file is at https://www.whichledlight.com/robots.txt
Isn't it all commented out though?

Unless you're viewing a different one?

Cheers
Jon

[JordanLowry]

Sorry to scare you I read it wrong I apologize.

[TrueluxGroup]

no problem!