Google indexed hundreds of /go/ pages

  • Resolved Deon

    (@deon-b)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi there,

    1) I have set a disallow /go/ in my robots.txt
    2) Using Yoast’s plugin I have set “no-index” for Simple Urls

    Results:
    Google indexed all my /go/ pages that now appear on search results like this:

    Affiliate product 1
    mywebsite.com/go/affiliate-product1
    A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt – learn more.

    The only thing I haven’t done is to set rel=nofollow for those links, because I thought that “disallow /go/” would have been enough. Is there anything else I can do?

    Thanks
    Deon

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/simple-urls/

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  • Thread Starter Deon

    (@deon-b)

    I’m ignorant about this,

    I don’t know what a WordPress database is, I don’t know what adding records to it means, and I don’t know why adding records to the database would be a problem.

    It would be nice if you could explain so that I learn something today, but don’t worry if it’s too much of a trouble ??

    Everything you store in WordPress is saved in a database. So posts, pages, categories, tags, … A database consists of tables. Just like an Excel worksheet. WordPress has a table for posts for instance. In this table, each post is a record.

    You should know about this database and create a backup of it so you can restore in case of problems.

    I searched for redirection found this post about a log you should purge manually. That might be the issue I heard or regarding performance:

    https://mydesultoryblog.com/2011/11/wordpress-and-my-slow-mysql-database-issue-is-solved/

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