(Entry was posted by AdÃ¬ Dee on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 02/24/2022).

Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt

Hello everyone! I have a search option of my companies` site. As the url ".../search" is a 404 (unless you made a search), I blocked it from being indexed. But because the form on all site does lead to this page, it is visible by google, and I got a google search console error: "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt". What is the solution in this case?

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Christine Hansen: A 404 code is a page that does not exist. You need to do a redirection, OR make the page, OR correct the link. Btw - Have you made your must-have standard 404-page that pops up when such errors occur? You could include 3-4 links to your best-performing pages on your 404-page. Look up "404 design" to see how others have designed their 404 pages. In your HTAccess file, you tell the server to load your 404 page every time the error occurs - that is being service-minded. Please remove your blocking of the page (that does not exist).

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Dario Ferreira: Remove the 404Add a canonical tag to the page, so Google and co. only "see" one page.e.g.:

No issue with having one search page indexed.

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Michael Martinez: This isn`t a problem requiring a solution. Google is simply telling you it knows about the URL but won`t crawl it.

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AdÃ¬ Dee: Thanks for answering ! wasn`t sure if it`s an issue or not. The other people just explained a web developer how to design a page and add a canonical tag

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