: Old category pages with URL parameters I have a problem with already indexed URLs (100k URLs). I have correct the pages with noindex and canonical tags over a month but old indexed pages aren’t
I have a problem with already indexed URLs (100k URLs). I have correct the pages with noindex and canonical tags over a month but old indexed pages aren’t removed from results.
The problem is the URL parameters that have already been indexed. I think that Google will never crawl URLs from old category pages with many URL parameters.
Also, I can see many indexed URLs with errors:
?pg=25&error_message=Unknown%2BSSL%2Bprotocol%2Berror%2Bin%2Bconnection%2Bto%2Bapi.twitter.com%3A443
How is it possible to remove these kind of URLs? Only with Remove URLs tool? Google will not crawl nonexistent pages.
I have already uses the “Fetch as Google” and resubmit sitemap.
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To remove the URLs with error messages from Google search, I would log into Google Search Console for your site and use the URL parameters tool. Add the parameter error_message. It is an active parameter because it changes the page. Then set it to No URLs so that Google won't crawl and index them.
You can also update your robots.txt file with the lines:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: *error_message*
Noindex: *error_message*
Once Google knows not to crawl and index these pages, they should fall out of the search results within a few weeks.
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