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  • September 4, 2018 at 10:05 pm #1005792
    srosen

    Hi Support

    I am battling with Google indexing rubbish pages on my enfold theme site: https://vicyourcoach.com/ Here is an example of the rubbish URLS mixed with my valid pages: https://imgur.com/a/GE0Y5Jj
    I have tried to resubmit sitemap and also manually removed these URLS but not sure where they are coming from?

    Here is an example of one: http://vicyourcoach.com/?sku=CD0-001-dumps.html

    I have updated theme and wordpress yet issue still exists.

    Please advise?
    Thanks

    September 5, 2018 at 1:53 am #1005830
    Ismael

    Hey srosen,

    Thank you for using Enfold.

    Did you install the WooCommerce or any other e-commerce/shop plugin? Please try to disallow any url with the “sku” parameter in your robot.txt file.

    Disallow: /*?sku=*

    More info about robot.txt file: https://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    September 5, 2018 at 2:26 am #1005838
    srosen

    Hi Ismael

    Thanks I included the allow comment in the robots.txt however I am still getting those funny URLS in my search results. I didnt have woocommerce installed but may have had a membership plugin in the past.

    Look forward to hearing from you?

    Thanks
    Saul

    September 5, 2018 at 10:17 am #1005951
    Ismael

    Hi,

    You have to “disallow” it, not allow. And you have to re-crawl the site.

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    September 5, 2018 at 11:15 am #1006027
    srosen

    Thanks and as per this image I have disallowed it? https://imgur.com/a/JM9Ycj8

    Look forward to hearing from you

    September 5, 2018 at 11:25 am #1006033
    Dude

    Hi,

    The code seems to be correct now.

    Thanks I included the allow comment in the robots.txt however I am still getting those funny URLS in my search results.

    Please note the search results in Google won’t go away instantly, this can take several months. In a similiar case the seo expert Yoast wrote “After six months the […] URLs should be gone from the search results.” (see https://yoast.com/media-attachment-urls/ ).

    Best regards,
    Dude

    September 5, 2018 at 1:39 pm #1006125
    srosen

    Thank again for getting back to me and one of the reasons I bought Enfold as you guys are sharp!
    Okay so I noticed whgen I google “vicyourcoach” the funny results dont show only when I google “vicyourvcoach.com” Strange one, so do you think I should just wait for Google to reindex and sort this out?

    September 5, 2018 at 1:54 pm #1006134
    srosen

    I was also wondering if I can create an error 404 page for the funny urls like this one: http://vicyourcoach.com/?sku=JN0-130-dumps.html . thanks?

    September 5, 2018 at 2:09 pm #1006138
    Dude

    Hi,

    do you think I should just wait for Google to reindex and sort this out?

    Yes – you can’t “force” Google to remove the search results.

    I was also wondering if I can create an error 404 page for the funny urls like this one: http://vicyourcoach.com/?sku=JN0-130-dumps.html . thanks?

    You can try to use a redirection plugin like https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/ to redirect all http://vicyourcoach.com/?sku= urls to a 404 page. I’d recommend to use a regular expression like:

    
/?sku=(.*)

    to redirect these urls. A good documentation can be found here: https://redirection.me/support/

    Best regards,
    Dude

    September 6, 2018 at 2:03 pm #1006601
    srosen

    GOOD NEWS, seems those foreign links are now removed from Google Search. Thanks again and keep up the good work with the theme. Look forward to some new demos :)

    September 6, 2018 at 2:11 pm #1006609
    Dude

    Hi!

    Great! Thank you for the kind words :)

    Regards,
    Peter

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