Whats the best way to stop search results from being indexed?

[stefanok]

I Have a Wordpress Site, and just realized that the search results are being indexed on Google creating duplicate content.

Whats the best way for me to stop these search result pages from being indexed without stopping the regulars and important pages and posts from being indexed as well?

**The typical search query looks like this:  **

http://xxx.com/?s=Milnerton&search=search&srch_type

AND

this also includes results that are linked to the "view more" such as:
http://xxx.com/index.php?s=viewmore

Your help would be much appreciated.

regards

Stef

[Sebes]

Either get the Yoast SEO Plugin, which does a <meta name='robots' content='noindex,follow'/> on search pages automatically or if you want to code it for yourself something like:

'; } ?> in the header.php file.

Hope this helps.

Sebastian

[stefanok]

Thank you so much Sebastian Will do.

[Sebes]

You are welcome. Appreciate it if you mark it as answered