[SOLVED] SEO Q: Search pages in Google Console show " Duplicate without user-selected canonical "

Problem with SEARCH pages only
Im running OC 3.x . Someone is spamming me with

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Google is trying to index them. I did robots.txt but google says that is should have a tag NO INDEX to work properly.

Google console says Duplicate without user-selected canonical.
1 - How do I make NO INDEX on the "search pages". I already did robots.txt
2 - All pages have rel="canonical" but not the search page. How do I make search pages rel="canonical"

Already have rel="canonical" on all product and category pages set up. Not on a search page.

I tried this in htacces : or but im not seeing the tag on the page when I do CTRL+U so I guess it doesnt work

Google is indexing every search quary. Even this garbage.

You won't see a tag in the source. You need to use your web browser's developer tool network tab and inspect the response header.

doktorek wrote: ↑

Thu May 16, 2024 12:43 am

Problem with SEARCH pages only
Im running OC 3.x . Someone is spamming me with

Spamming you? I think it looks like you've been hacked. Get a competent developer to check your site ASAP.

No, not hacked. Google is indexing all my search pages... I need to stop it from indexing

Have you added these to your robots.txt:
?

JNeuhoff wrote: ↑

Thu May 23, 2024 5:23 pm

Have you added these to your robots.txt:

Code: Select all

Disallow: /*?route=product/search
Disallow: /*&route=product/search

?

His urls there are for tags:

https://www.mysite.com/search?tag=......

so

I did the robots.txt file and I did the .htaccess block. Robots.txt doestn help much. Google will still index content.

But I need to put NOINDEX and / or CANONTICAL on all search pages, going into the future so google doesnt show me "Duplicate without user-selected canonical ".
I dont how how!

My seo plugin does CONONICAL on other pages, just not on the search page. How to do NO INDEX or CANONICAL on the search page. I found old article

The following should work in htaccess, but you will have to remove from robots.txt otherwise Goolge won't see it. You will also not see it as a HTML tag on the page, you need to look at the response headers.

doktorek wrote: ↑

Fri May 24, 2024 11:27 pm

I did the robots.txt file and I did the .htaccess block. Robots.txt doestn help much. Google will still index content.

But I need to put NOINDEX and / or CANONTICAL on all search pages, going into the future so google doesnt show me "Duplicate without user-selected canonical ".
I dont how how!

My seo plugin does CONONICAL on other pages, just not on the search page. How to do NO INDEX or CANONICAL on the search page. I found old article

tag= pages are actually predefined search pages as you define the tags, not the customer unlike the search= pages. Therefore, it is bad to have these indexed.
Still, you could read this post:
viewtopic.php?t=220235#p800800

I found another way to fix the indexing issue of existing "junk" inidexed pages with "tags" in the path

in htaccess file I just 410 all those error pages for google console. These pages no longer return anything. Google should remove them asap
I made a custom 410 page with an error for apache
So any string with keyword "tag" or any other keyword (that you define there instead of "tag"), will return 410 page. Google should take care of the rest. Fingers crossed.
1st line resents your 404 page to server side 404 page if you have a theme based custom one


Also, to find out the true header site returns, there is a great extension for SEOs called "Redirect path" in chrome extenstions

I found that in my Google Search Console. And I applied what they said in this post :
viewtopic.php?p=877067
and I will follow what happens in my GSC