: Google wrongly indexes URL parameter I have a online store with Magento, which means there are a lot of parameters to filter categories. Small example: www.example.com/chats/distributeurs-fontaine/

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I have a online store with Magento, which means there are a lot of parameters to filter categories. Small example:
example.com/chats/distributeurs-fontaine/ example.com/chats/distributeurs-fontaine/?limit=12

Since it's bad for SEO, we did 2 things for the 2nd URL not to index: we blocked it via robots.txt and used a canonical.

Robots.txt line:
Disallow: /*?limit*

Canonical:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/chats/distributeurs-fontaine/" />

Still, the 2 URLs are indexed. I'll admit we didn't set proper URL parameters instructions in Webmaster tools from the start, but I would have thought we did enough.

Do you have an idea why the canonical didn't work? And do you see a potential solution to get the thousands of bad URLs out?

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