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No problem Sarah, glad I could help. The blocked pages will take a long while to drop off so give it time, approx 5 - 6 weeks. If you do get any problems with what we've spoken about pm me. Cheers
Don't worry about webmaster tools stating severe health issues, that is because of the large amount of restricted indexed pages, the restricted pages are to be expected with the robots.txt blOcking the ?SIDs.
I think your 301 redirects are fine, I'll try and have a look at that product later...
I'm not sure whether or not you should remove the redirects. Why were they set up in the first place?
Can you name a product of yours that has the redirect so I can see what is happening, I maybe able to figure out why.
Hi Sarah,
Google isn't finding duplicates, you mentioned in your first post that the pages were listed under 'Restricted By Robots.txt' tab in Webmaster Tools. The reason Google is listing these is because it did have all of those pages indexed, the robots.txt that you have currently blocks...
The reason you're getting these ?SID's is because domains are being crossed.
When I browse to your site all is good, now go to the footer and click 'Contact Us' and it sends me to https://posie.gostorego.com/contacts/?SID=20i9piplanlk2iemb3eagm4ac0 .
There are numerous links 'My Account'...
How long did you have your Magento Go site on the previous setup?
How long have you had your Webmaster Tools setup for this site?
Are you positive that these 'blocked pages' have only appeared since moving to the new setup?
Could you show me the full URL's of some of the 'blocked pages'...
Whatever you set as the 'Base URL' in Magento, you should also ensure is set as your preferred domain in Webmaster Tools. Whether it be:
yourdomain.co.uk
www.yourdomain.co.uk
The ?SID should only appear in a Magento URL if the website is accessed using the domain that does not match the...
Hi Sarah,
This line 'Disallow: /*SID=' in your robots.txt is blocking the pages that WERE indexed with "?SID=41ovhfbhg4o6jr9o5bjci70t5", Google is notifying you that these pages are no longer accessible via the Google bot.
I think you possibly had a 'canonical' issue with the previous...