Excluding pages from being indexed.

[hattie999]

I have a relatively small site of about 900 pages, but around 400 of those are pages associated with email a friend, as that link sits on every page.

The path to that file is [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]

I also have another page that doesnt need ot be indexed and thats

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I tried excluding them using the exclude urls' bit, but it didnt work as I'm probably doing it wrong.

Could somebody show me how I block those pages inside the scripts folder.

Cheers

Lee

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

make sure that you list them in "Exlcude URLs" option without paths, like:

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emailToFriend.asp
prodReview.asp

[hattie999]

hello,

ok I tried that and it didnt work either.

Would the reason for that be that both those pages always have extra information attached to them, such as:

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http://www.mysite.co.uk/scripts/prodReview.asp?idProduct=355


and

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http://www.mysite.co.uk/scripts/emailToFriend.asp?idProduct=355


and another page that doesnt need to be indexed is contactUs.asp, and again, its alwasy got extra information

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http://www.mysite.co.uk/scripts/contactUs.asp?emailSubject=Product+Inquiry+%3A+0482+%2D+Little+Lamb+on+Board


Im guesssing this is the problem.

Cheers

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

It should exclude URLs with appended parameters too, did you regenerate sitemap after that?
For contact pages you'll need to add "contactUs.asp".