Dynamic URLs Pagination

Site Reviews adds the URL parameters on pagination so that:

• You can reload the page without losing your place in pagination
• You can use the back/forward button in your browser with the pagination
• You can use paginated reviews on a page that already has its own pagination

If you do not want search engines to index your paginated review pages, you can fix this by doing the following:

1. Install the Robots.txt Editor plugin
2. Add the following entries to the robots.txt:

user-agent: *
Disallow: /*?reviews-page=*
Disallow: /*?*reviews-page=*

Those entries will prevent all search engines that obey the robots.txt from indexing urls that contain the ?reviews-page URL parameter.

Once you have made changes to the robots.txt file, you can tell Google to reindex your website like this:

1. Login to Google Search Console, add a site, and verify it with the available methods.
2. After verification, click on URL Inspection and enter your website URL or custom URLs for inspection.
3. After Inspection is complete, it will show an option to Request Indexing. This will add your website to the queue for crawling.

FYI: v5.0 will provide the following option:

Hi Paul, sorry that I’ve taken a while to reply. I developed a migraine which necessitated sitting in a dark room away from a screen. Thank you very much for the info you have given me. I will look into the robots.txt option, but the v5.0 option looks ideal! Is that going to be released soon? Thank you for creating a brilliant plugin – it’s helping me a lot.

Michael.

In a few weeks

Will selecting the No option in the update break the ajax reviews page bit or just remove the dynamic url?

I will just prevent the URL parameter from being added. However, it will remove the following pagination features:

– You can reload the page without losing your place in pagination
– You can use the back/forward button in your browser with the pagination
– You can use paginated reviews on a page that already has its own pagination

Thanks Paul