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I have 301 redirects from my old URL to the new URL (and from http to https, and from no www to www)
The link suggestion you provided just offered a link to a you-tube video that was instructive but did not help me.
I found a link to https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905 which allowed me to "report content that you would like removed from Google's services". I submitted a request that the scrapper site be removed from Google's index.
While doing text Google searches for various keywords I have found two sites that have scrapped pages from my site which goes by an old URL of www.tpxcnex.com and a new URL of www.tpxonline.com
www.folder.com is one of the sites and if you try to visit that site or any of the scrapped Google index listing, Chrome warns you not to.
How can I ask Chrome to deindex www.folder.com or another scrapper site, or atleast deindex the URLs which have clearly scrapped my content?
My site has hundreds of keyword content landing pages that contain one or two sections of "read more" text that work by calling the page and changing a ChangeReadMore variable. This causes the page to currently get indexed 5 times (see examples below plus two more with anchor tag set to #sectionReadMore2
This causes Google to include the first version of the page which is the canonical version and exclude the other 4 versions of the page. Google search console says my site has 4.93K valid pages and 13.8K excluded pages.
My questions are:
1. Does having a lot of excluded pages which are all copies of included pages hurt my domain authority or otherwise hurt my SEO efforts?
2. Should I add a rel="nofollow" attribute to the read more link? If I do this will Google reduce the number of excluded pages?
3. Should I instead add logic so the canonical tag displays the exact URL each time the page re-displays in another readmore mode? I assume this would increase my "included pages" and decrease the number of "excluded pages". Would this somehow help my SEO efforts?
EXAMPLE LINKS
https://www.tpxonline.com/Marketplace/Used-AB-Dick-Presses-For-Sale.asp
I have 4 specific questions related to this issue:
1. Can Google bots and other bots index pages that can only be accessed after the user logs in? If no, what do the bots do when then encounter a login requirement?
2. Is it good or bad to tell bots to stay away from the /Login folder with "Disallow: /Login" added to robots.txt?
3. I added robots meta tag "noindex" to /Login/Control.asp (see link above). Will this prevent Google from reporting a "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt" warning?
4. Do redirect chains related to login requirements negatively impact my site rankings and, if so, what can I do about this?