I have a truck load of categories indexed in google with ?subcats=y parameter. Now with the new version of cs-cart this is properly handled via rel=canonical pointing to the main category URL? Is that sufficent to make Google de-index those duplicated pages with ?subcats=y ?
Or should I add a disallow in robots.txt?
Or perhaps handle that parameter in "URL parameter settings" in Google Search Console?
What is the correct way? I'd like those pages to be gone from site:mypage.com.
Search Console now indicates a whooping 3mln of URLs with that parameter "monitored" (whatever that means, because they are not all indexed).
What is the strategy to poke Google to de-index mass low/no-value links? Should I first put "noindex" tag in them and wait to be de-index then block them?
As I am reading the duplicate and thin content with URL parameters and "unfriendly" seo name should firstly be "noindexed" in HTML and then after they go de-indexed they can be blocked in robots.txt
I am afraid that just blocking them in robots.txt wont actually force them to be de-indexed.
Anybody has any experience in pruning thin content from post-old cs-cart installation?
Maybe there is a way to add "noindex" tag in pages like:
Back to subcats.... what does this parameter even change? Anything? I cant notice any difference, but obviously I cant check all the URL with that parameter because there are thousands of them. Can I just make a 301 redirection to remove the parameter?
Back to subcats.... what does this parameter even change? Anything? I cant notice any difference, but obviously I cant check all the URL with that parameter because there are thousands of them. Can I just make a 301 redirection to remove the parameter?
As for the parameter.
It means that the server will search the products not only in current category but also in all subcategories.
Thanks imac. I dont have this option checked. And I dont want to have products from subcats shown. But I dont have a button in shop for customers to enable it, so Im not sure how Google indexed it. The scale of it is enormous though.
Thanks imac. I dont have this option checked. And I dont want to have products from subcats shown. But I dont have a button in shop for customers to enable it, so Im not sure how Google indexed it. The scale of it is enormous though.
Please let me know if you find a page with such link.