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Help! What to do with bad pages...

ctmartin replied to the thread 4 years ago

I guess I could forbid anything with "?p=" in htaccess. For the record, here's what I'm doing... let's see if this has the right effect (gotta wait for Google)....

Help! What to do with bad pages...

ctmartin replied to the thread 4 years ago

Ah, yeah you're right... robots.txt will just stop Google from crawling the pages, but if someone, somewhere, is linking to these query string pages, Google thinks they'r...

Help! What to do with bad pages...

ctmartin replied to the thread 4 years ago

Thank you, I guess what I ought to do is set the robots.txt to just disallow anything /?p*, since the pages aren't really there but Google has indexed the query string-ve...