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  • February 6, 2017 at 7:11 pm #743528
    adferger1

    I used ScreamingFrog to check my pages for duplicate content.
    It looks like there is 2 versions of every page. Can someone explain why it does this?

    February 7, 2017 at 9:43 am #743759
    Rikard

    Hey adferger1,

    Looks like it’s adding the search parameters to the URL so it’s not really duplicate content, search engines know things like this so I don’t think you will have negative effects on your ranking because of it. You might want to ask the plugin authors just to be sure, but I’m pretty sure this is related to WordPress itself, meaning it’s not theme specific.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    February 7, 2017 at 12:36 pm #743860
    adferger1

    Think it is Yoast SEO plugin that does it.
    So I shouldn’t worry?

    February 7, 2017 at 11:17 pm #744132
    adferger1

    Update:
    I went to Enfold -> Header -> Extra Elements -> and unchecked the “Append search icon to main menu”

    After this everything works fine. So it seems like it is a theme error after all.
    Dont know if it the ajax form that makes it index search pages?

    February 8, 2017 at 5:53 am #744189
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Hm, I didn’t think of that. I think that function might actually add the search parameters to each page to prepare for a search. Are you ok with having that off though?

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    February 8, 2017 at 11:55 am #744310
    adferger1

    Well. Correct me if I am wrong, but I have 2 options to solve this:

    A) Leave the search function off

    or

    B)
    Add this to my robots.txt fil:
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /?s=

    Correct?

    February 9, 2017 at 6:57 am #744640
    Rikard

    Hi,

    I guess so yes, did you try it out and did it work?

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    February 13, 2017 at 1:53 pm #746385
    adferger1

    Well… Screaming frog SEO tool still find all the pages. But the Disallow Google wont find them. So I guess it is ok

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