: How to avoid google from indexing like example.com/post/post/post/1-foobar.html? I have a weird anomaly with one project. Where Google is indexing sites like: example.com/post/post/post/1-foobar.html

@Speyer207

When you have a URL in the page without a nofollow, loaded directly, it is most likely that Google will follow it. In your case, when Google is following it, it is being served with a page by your script, so it is not entirely Google's fault. You have really two options here:


Add a canonical link. You mentioned that you have already done that.
Add a rel=nofollow to the link on your page that is generating these URLs. So Google will no longer follow it, at least for your new pages.
In order to remove the already indexed pages from Google, file a page removal request at Google Webmaster Tools.


These are workarounds. The ideal solution is to prevent such things from happening, by making the relative URL an absolute one and preventing your script from serving a page when some one accesses a URL that does not exist. This has mostly likely lead to some duplicate content on your page, and solving this should be one of your top priority issues.

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