Google Console - Pages From 25k to 1.7m - HELP

[George_Greenhil]

We’ve just noticed last week that our page indexing on Google Search Console has gone from around 25k to 1.7m pages since the new theme which is a little strange/concerning as we don’t have that many pages and haven’t added any new ones either.

A lot of these seem to have this type of formatting: https://proteinpackage.co.uk/collections/types?constraint=tag&q=Callowfit/tag/tag/tag/tag?page%3D6/tag?page=196?page=8?page=38/tag?page=27 OR https://proteinpackage.co.uk/collections/vendors?constraint=tag&q=Huel?page%3D3/tag/tag/tag/tag?page=12/tag?page=29?page=28?page=5?page=18/tag?page=18 which I’m not sure what it’s from but it seems to be some sort of tagging system issue.

I have attached images showing the inside of GSC showing it.

Many thanks,
George Greenhill

[Josep97]

Hey George, You will need to blocked on Robots.txt

You should enter the following command in robots.txt

Disallow: /collections/types?constraint=*

This will tell Google that you do not want these URLs to be crawled.

If you have any questions, I’m all ears

Best regards

[George_Greenhil]

Hey @Josep97

Thanks for getting back to me, if I do that, wont it block Google from deindexing the bad/spam URLs?

From what I can tell, I need to add noindex which I’ve already done, once they’re noindex, then use robots.txt - is that correct or not?

Many thanks,

George

[Josep97]

Yes first noindex and then block with robots.txt