How do I Disallow links in google?

ocrasorm · Jun 11, 2019

I am running a wordpress website. Yesterday i found that Google has started indexing a lot of pages of my websites that has not been created/published.

example.com/warrior/?widgetCacheId=66e9f818d503abc46d28e5c8fa09af6d&hjfhdjfhdfjdhfjhdjf

example.com/warrior/?widgetCacheId=0e718c5ddceb50accf0953a313fb7cd0&uiudisuidusi

example.com/warrior/?widgetCacheId=66e9f818d503abc46d28e5c8fa09af6d&576564567546

Same content is showing on those pages too. I want to disallow links using robots.txt file that starts from ?widgetCacheId

Hyper999 · Jun 11, 2019

The question is, why you have such specific url's? are you using some plugin for caching?

SirLouen · Jun 11, 2019

You can restrict that with robots.txt
just put something like /warrior/?widgetCacheId*
Also you can restrict parameters on Google Search Console:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6080548?hl=en

ocrasorm · Jun 12, 2019

Hyper999 said:
The question is, why you have such specific url's? are you using some plugin for caching?

Yes i am using wordpress questions answer plugin.

ocrasorm · Jun 12, 2019

SirLouen said:
You can restrict that with robots.txt
just put something like /warrior/?widgetCacheId*
Also you can restrict parameters on Google Search Console:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6080548?hl=en

I am using yahoo type question answer plugin for wordpress and there are more than 4000 pages/question submitted on the website. I want to disallow links start start with

example.com/warrior/?widgetCacheId=0e718c5ddceb50accf0953a313fb7cd0&uiudisuidusi

But if i put /warrior/?widgetCacheId* in robots.txt file, will google disallow ?widgetCacheId=0e718c5ddceb50accf0953a313fb7cd0&uiudisuidusi links? because i do not want to disallow other links such as

example.com/warrior/this-is-a-test-post

Hyper999 · Jun 12, 2019

This is what you need to put in your robots.txt file
Disallow: /?*
Then you should modify your url indexing preferences in google webmaster tools
Site Configuration -> URL Parameters
try to deindex them in https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/url-removal tool
this is temporary exclusion if you are not setting 404 answer on those url's

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