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Google indexing searches

by frambles
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I don't understand how Google has managed to index a search result on my website. I have categories which are indexed as normal but a search, for example "brushing teeth" (no category for this) actually shows up in Google results (if I type in "free brushing teeth sound effects" into Google) and hitting the result opens a page on my website with "brushing teeth" in the search box and results showing for it...

Anyone know how this happens?
#google #indexing #searches
  • Profile picture of the author acetally
    good trick and good way to put link with this link system..
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    • Profile picture of the author frambles
      ?? Don't understand what you mean here.... to me it is bizarre, I imagine Google's bots don't put random search in a search box and then index the result!

      Any ideas anyone?
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  • Profile picture of the author Jammy
    Yes, it's when a user has visited your page, searched for something and google bot has visited at the same time. It will drop out of the serps quite quickly and probably be replaced by another search instead.

    It's a little black hat tactic to link to various searches on your site - it can make your site look like it has more pages than it really has. If you do this, don't do many or it's obvious you've done it and not google bot.
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    • Profile picture of the author frambles
      Originally Posted by Jammy View Post

      It's a little black hat tactic to link to various searches on your site - it can make your site look like it has more pages than it really has. If you do this, don't do many or it's obvious you've done it and not google bot.
      Thanks Jammy - But I haven't done anything deliberately... how can a search be performed by someone at exactly the same time that a bot is crawling? How can you know?

      I imagine a legit visitor was on there at the same time? If it is bad, how can I stop it happening?

      Thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        You need to tweak your robots.txt if you really
        want them to not get indexed.

        Blogspot does the setting automatically, as
        google knows how to do a correct robots.txt

        Wordpress has a whole lot of stuff to not index in
        their robots.txt as well, not sure about search
        results.

        You need to find how your searches are done,
        what page, etc. to block the googlebot.

        I have not really heard a good explanation as to why
        you should block search results. My feeling is that
        they are useless pages, and if people search a lot,
        then you can have literally thousands of useless pages
        indexed. Why would this be bad? Because the real
        content would soon be dwarfed by this junk, and a
        better chance of someone finding it. That's not
        all bad.

        Anyone else have a better reason?

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Ebay is bad about getting their search pages indexed. If you see an ebay search page ranking on the first page, chances are that organic SERP competition is weak.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Ebay is bad about getting their search pages indexed. If you see an ebay search page ranking on the first page, chances are that organic SERP competition is weak.
      I used to get a lot of those in the past. Before I knew better.
      Frustrating, as the auctions were over or had been removed.

      Maybe that's a good reason. Some of the content may be gone,
      or person does not want search results. They click to the page
      in the SERP, and take a dislike to your "stuff."

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