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)....

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...

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Looks like your website traffic and keywords graph have gone up and then gone down and this may have happened because of some content issues on your website or low-qualit...

Hi @ms, thanks for your reply. With subdirectory based multisite I mean a multisite network where subsites are hosted in folders of the main site, like: mainsite.com/site...

If you're trying to build a link wheel, it's not gonna work. Not in 2020. What exactly do you mean by subdirectory based multisite? Both pages, domain.com/a domain.com/b...

Link wise, seems like you have acquired high volume of lower quality links, which doesn't help much with authority. Try to stick to your niche and get relevant links from...

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I don't think it would help - as you pointed out, pages are already in G's index. Disallowing crawler access to those pages (that are responding with 404 anyway) won't re...