: My website URLs have fake search term query strings that are appering in Google search A few days ago I was informed that my website appears when searching some random terms with a URL that,

@Twilah146

This is a simple thing to fix.

It is done with robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?


This will help to block access to all URLs that include a question mark (?) (more specifically, any URL that begins with your domain name, followed by any string, followed by a question mark, followed by any string).

See: serverfault.com/questions/139487/meaning-of-disallow-in-robots-txt
Disclaimer: Use with EXTREME care.

Added:

As goes the immediate concern of removing these urls it would be best in my view to indicate to Google the updates on the robots.txt page via the dedicated robots.txt section on Google Search Console.

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