: Google indexes a lot of pages with non-existent parameter's values Recently, i noticed that in my "google webmaster tools", Google indexes something like 500000 pages on my site, a site formed
Recently, i noticed that in my "google webmaster tools", Google indexes something like 500000 pages on my site, a site formed by more or less 300 pages.
What google indexes is the same pages with other "invented" values for the parameters (like "index.php?action=xe429rtn3" and so on).
The problem is that actually i think that Google sees them as a huge lot of duplicate content! How can that pages have been seen by Google and how i can fix it?
More details:
My site use Joomla 1.5 and the component "Zoo".
The indexes pages are not linked in any place in my website.
Thank you in advance
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Robots.txt
If all the problems are on index.php and it is not a page you actually need to have linked or indexed, put it in robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /index.php
Webmaster Tools Url Parameters Settings
If the problem is with a specific set of parameters like "action" that are not actually supposed to be crawled or indexed, tell Google about them in Webmaster Tools. Under "Configuration" -> "URL Parameters" set each of the parameters that you would like Googlebot to ignore to "Effect: none, Crawl: Representative URL" instead of letting Googlebot decide.
Canonical Meta Tag
There are plugins for Joomla that will set a canonical url for each page. A canonical tag on each page will tell Googlebot not to index the duplicate content and only index the correct or "canonical" url for each page. Here is one that I found by searching: extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-a-metadata/url-canonicalization-/16198
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