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For  these paratmeters are not at the very end os the url you should add * after the letter of the parameter as well in the restriction

you got my point, thanks for looking into this. Since our search page load with list view by default and it is not in URL but still v=l represents the list view.

I want to disallow both parameters "view=g, view=m" in any URL from bots.

If these parameters are sometimes in between and some time at the end of URL what will be the work around for for both cases, you suggest?

Thanks for looking into this...

Hey Guys,

I am about make an important improvement to our site's robots.txt

we have large number of properties on our site and we have different views for them. List, gallery and map view. By default list view shows up and user can navigate through gallery view.

We donot want gallery pages to get indexed and want to save our crawl budget for more important pages.

this is one example of our site:

http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/France/r31.htm

When you click on "gallery view" URL of this site will remain same in your address bar: but when you mouse over the "gallery view" tab it will show you URL with parameter "view=g". there are number of parameters: "view=g, view=l and view=m".

http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/France/r31.htm?view=l

http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/France/r31.htm?view=g

http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/France/r31.htm?view=m

Now my question is:

I If restrict bots by adding "Disallow: ?view=" in our robots.txt will it effect the list view too?

Will be very thankful if yo look into this for us.

Many thanks

Hassan

I will test this on some other site within our network too before putting it to important one's. to measure the impact but will be waiting for your recommendations. Thanks