(Entry was posted by Faraz Ahmed on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 07/30/2020).

Removing a page from search result

I have an E-commerce website and my main keyword is ranking on a Google SERP with a URL attached to lots of filters in a query string. So I decided to block all query string attached with URLs through robots.txt file. But what`s this screenshot saying?

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Tim Capper: So Google feels that that URL (even a paramater url) is the best fit for that query. Now that you have txt`s it -Google still wants to display but you are blocking them.

Did you add a canonicol before going full blown txt
Chris Boggs: As Tim alluded-to, this is one of the whole reasons the Canonical was invented.
Michael Martinez: You may want to review this helpful guide from Google on how to construct disallow rules in "robots.txt".

https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_txt