Make Sure Not To Let Any “Search Pages” Get Indexed
April 26, 2007 – 5:34 pmIf you have a search function on your website and it allows for publicly accessible searches to be performed, keep in mind that Google has said these search results must be dis-allowed from being crawled or your website can end up in trouble.
The policy makes sense. The search pages tend to be dribble, and are generally just machine-generated doorway pages. So if you do have a search page on your website, make sure it doesn’t get crawled.
You can:
- Use no-follow
- Call the search page from your form method and don’t directly link to it
- Disallow it from robots.txt
- All of the above
Just make sure you get it done before you get in trouble.
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