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@Bonakaren

I made a decision not to use noindex because I read somewhere that it’s not good to have canonical tag and noindex tag on the same page.

The only case I can think of where that would be problematic is if your canonical points to another URL which is indexable, e.g.;

• Current url - /test1 canonical points to /test2, and has a noindex meta.
• /test2 allows indexing

Problematic since you’re sending ambiguous signals to Google… does the noindex refer to the /test1 or /test2

Any other normal scenario should be fine.

@Bonakaren

I decided to implement “disallow” rule for pages with ? in url. So far looks like it worked, I’m monitoring what’s gonna be the long term effect.

That’s a solid solution, however in general robots.txt defines where robots can visit, not what they should index.

There’s a disconnect there… if your page is aready indexed, and then you add it to robots.txt, the typical Google response, is to stop crawling that page for changes… but it will not remove your page from indexing.

A mistake people often make is to try to remove a page quickly by using both noindex and robots.txt. Robots.txt blocks the crawler from seeing the noindex, so the page is stuck in SERPs indefinitely.