#872 – url created by website search

Hi,

I'm seeing on Url manager lots of urls created by search module of virtuemart. And I read that is good have this pages with no-index to avoid duplicates or similar contents. Is that right?

So I set the search module to use a menu ID of "Promoções" where I set a noindex on Virtuemart category of "Promoções". But I;m not sure if its working or if this is correct.
I have another menu item "Contato" where the noindex is on menu configuration, not in content. If this technique is ok, which is better?

Hi,

Without the structure of your site is way too difficult to answer this question. But if category Promoções is the same also for Contato then setting this to no index is one option. Another possible way is: if you got some menu for category Promoções then you can make menu item Contato a system alias to the other menu. This actually will not produce duplicate content and is recommended.

Regards

I think I did not made myself clear.

My concern is about url created by search module. This is a problem for SEO? They are growing on url manager.
On Search Module of Virtuemart I can set a menu ID for results and I have two options:
1- Contact menu item where I can set the noindex at menu config; or
2- Promotion that is a virtuemart category menu type where the nondex setup are on virtuemart category

My question is: Is the url from Search a problem? If yes, these options of direct the results to a menu item with noindex is good? If yes, which of those above is better? noindex on menu item or on virtuemart category under another menu item?

My we site is http://xxxx.com

Thanks

Hi,

I thought you were talking for the category, anyway these URLs comes from Joomla and virtuemart, sh404SEF is just processing these URLs. The way you describe as a solution sounds a bit complicated, if there are a lot of URLs. What would be much easier is the use of .htaccess like this:

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch "^index.php\?search=something?$">
Header set X-Robots-Tag: "noindex"
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

Of course the the "index.php?search…" must be the correct non-SEF URL (this is a dummy URL)

Regards