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Topic: How to resolve a duplicate page issue?

Graham

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November 8, 2018 9:39 am

Hello,

I have searched in the Google using the command “site: mywebsite.com”

However, I found that:
There’re some duplicate pages which have the exact same content like the site Homepage but with different URL. (which is caused by the “TABS” function on the homepage.)

I have attached the screenshot and the issue URL in the private section below.
Can you pls have a check and let me know how to fix it?

Many thanks
Regards
Graham
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Rose Tyler

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November 8, 2018 11:38 am

Hello,

Please try to exclude this URL from the index. Read here how to create roboots.txt file for the WP https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-robots-txt/

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Graham

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November 10, 2018 3:17 am

Hello,

Thanks very much for your suggestion.

Just have a quick question:
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I have now added the following rules in my case:
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /?mst_cplfvc_page_epx=
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However, it seems this would only stop the robots crawling, but I suppose the URL mentioned above is already indexed in Google, is there anything I can do to no-index the URLs with such query string?
( /?mst_cplfvc_page_epx= )

Thanks again!
Regards
Graham

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Graham

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November 10, 2018 3:21 am

I do have carefully read the tutorial you’ve suggested above,

and here is what I found in their description about the indexing thing.

Screenshot: http://prntscr.com/lgjbdk

Hope you can help to give some kind idea when you’re convenient.

G’day

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Olga Barlow

Support staff

November 13, 2018 3:03 pm

Hello,

Unfortunately, we are not the SEO specialists to help you with creating the correct sitemap of your site and robots file, exclude or include the pages from indexing. If you click on the tab you’ll get a little bit different URL than one that you provided http://prntscr.com/lhu8zi . So, I’m not sure why that link was indexed.
If you need help with SEO, please, contact WPKraken team to get help with this.

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Graham

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November 15, 2018 10:00 am

I got it.
Thank you, actually I noticed that, the URL clicked on the TAB is different to the one that is indexed in Google.

I’ll consult the problem with Google Support team, and if the problem still exists, I’ll then try the WPKraken team, thanks again for your suggestion!

Have a G’day!
Regards
Graham

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Rose Tyler

Support staff

November 15, 2018 10:15 am

Hello,

You’re welcome!
Have a nice day.

Regards

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