Internal site search: No Index or Rel Canonical?

if the pages (that you want to no-index) is related to the pages that are ranking, i'd suggest you to do the canonical.

Example - if a page "Men's Jeans" is ranking, and it's sub page "Men's Blue Jeans" is also ranking, then you can add the canonical in the later mentioned page.

I hope this helps. Thanks.

You have to also indicate in robots.txt file to prohibit from indexing...

You can likewise eliminate the second page from sitemap.xml with the goal that the crawlers won't much make a big deal about the page.

For the most part, the same page with sanctioned labels will be excluded... unusually for an eCommerce site.

Hi, as per your question both of the methods will work perfectly as you want. But you have to take care of some rules and regulations before taking any action. First, let's talk about the best method. The preferable method of deindexing a page from Google is "Robots.txt" file. It is really the best way to do it. In this, you just disallow a web-page in robots.txt file and then google won't index that particular web-page. But, if you don't have much knowledge about it and if you'll do anything wrong then it will definitely affect your organic traffic. So, if you want to apply this method then first you have to become a master in this.

The second method - "Using Canonical Tag". If you have multiple pages with the same content, then you'll use this tag to tell Google about the original page. If you'll use this tag on a Web-Page then the particular page is considered as a duplicate page of a referred URL. And then the Google show the referred URL in the search results as you want.

I hope this answer will help you to resolve your problem.

You can add 'nofollow' tag to every link that pointing to these pages.



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