: Is it good to have a separate search results page for a website? In terms of SEO and maintainability. My website is based on WordPress, it's currently using WordPress search and it's using
In terms of SEO and maintainability.
My website is based on WordPress, it's currently using WordPress search and it's using the same URL as the home page to return search results i.e. say my website is at domain.com then the search results are at domain.com/?<parameters>
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Generally, Google or Bing don't index URLs with queries in them (ie: domain.com/?q=test). This can also be considered a black hat method because Google has warned people not to have their site search results indexed by Google. If you go to support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769 you will see that under technical guidelines it says:
Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don't add much value for users coming from search engines.
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