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Hello,
>>> There are people who actually want to get their search results to google and there are ways, where a search archive can help boost your results
1. Please explain your words: “get their search results to google” and “where a search archive can help boost your results”,
How is that possible? Google says that there is a Soft 404 error code, means it may not crawl those pages, and very likely will not index. What’s the benefit if pages are not available to Google?
2. Also, our opinion is that this may not be good, because (a) Google is eliminating duplicate content, (b) most sites have categories/tag archives which are similar to search results (c) all such search results page are similar and may be skipped by search engines.
3. How many people want to have such design? Let’s assume 1%, then all other customers, 99%, should not have a bug if someone else need very specific feature.
People who want such feature should manually implement it on their sites.
Best regards,
>>> It’s possible to disallow any url with the search (?s=key) query.
Already wrote about this, see previous message:
Your proposal to block ?s= results are not correct. Theme should work fine out of the box in default installation. Your clients should not spend additional time on fixing your own issues.
In other words, you have a bug, rejecting to fix, and proposing unprofessional workaround.
This is not a good practice for commercial product.
Hello,
Yes, we know this joke: This is not a bug, this is a feature!
Why this has to be fixed:
1. Soft 404 error code is when page is empty/without content and there is no “HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found” header.
Link: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/181708?hl=en
According to Google, this is not correct, Google treats those pages with ?s= parameters as empty pages and there is no 404 status in header.
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We recommend that you always return a 404 (Not found) or a 410 (Gone) response code in response to a request…2. This may have impact on indexation.
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Because of the time Googlebot spends on non-existent pages, your unique URLs may not be discovered as quickly or visited as frequently and your site’s crawl coverage may be impacted (also, you probably don’t want your site to rank well for the search query [File not found]).Your proposal to block ?s= results are not correct. Theme should work fine out of the box in default installation. Your clients should not spend additional time on fixing your issues.
