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We have stackable filters on some of our pages (ie: ?filter1=a&filter2=b&etc.). Those stacked filters pages are "noindex, follow". They were created in order to facilitate the indexation of the item listed in them.

After analysing the logs we know that the search engines do not crawl those stacked filter pages.

Does blocking those pages (by loading their link in AJAX for example) would help our crawl rate or not? In order words does removing links that are already not crawled help the crawl rate of the rest of our pages?

My assumption here is that SE see those links but discard them because those pages are too deep in our architecture and by removing them we would help SE focus on the rest of our page. We don't want to waste our efforts removing those links if there will be no impact.

Thanks

Thanks for your answer.

So for you it's big bang.

Google seems to use our alternate to index our mobile site and display our mobile URL in his SERP even if all our mobile pages are noindex, nofollow.

We have a mobile website (mobile.website.com) that mirror our desktop site (www.website.com) with +100 000 pages.

• We have an alternate tag on our desktop to our mobile site and a user agent detect that redirect mobile traffic to our mobile site
• Our mobile site is no index and has a canonical to our desktop.

Everything works pretty well, the mobile website is not index and only show up in SERP when a user make a search from a mobile.

Our main website is now responsive and we would like to kill our mobile site without compromising our traffic.

We know that a slight speed change or content change can affect our traffic, what would be the best way to do that?

• Big bang: redirect all mobile URL to desktop, remove user agent detect and remove alternate tag on desktop
• Semi Big bang: remove user agent detect and remove alternate tag on desktop and see how the traffic react before redirecting
• Progressive: remove the user agent detect and the alternate tag on some section of the website to see how the traffic react
• Other ?

Anyone has any experience with that?

Thanks and let me know if anything is not clear.

My client has a mobile website (m.website.com) and is working on a responsive website.

The site is already labeled "Mobile friendly" on the SERP and I was wondering if, when the site will be responsive, it would be worth it to redirect the subdomain or it would be safer to keep the subdomain and still redirect mobile users to it since we're already Mobile friendly (we would keep the rel alternate on the main domain and the rel canonical on mobile).