Internal Search
What This Means
URLs that might be part of the websites internal search function. Google and other search engines recommend blocking internal search pages from being crawled to limit sometimes duplicate and low quality pages from being crawled and indexed.
What Triggers This Issue
This issue is triggered when a URL appears to be part of the website’s internal search function. For example: https://www.getasky.com/search?q=example
How To Fix
Most internal site searches are built for users, rather than search engines who may needlessly crawl and index them. As best practise most search sections of a site should not be linked to internally, and should be disallowed in robots.txt. Popular search pages could be built into real pages to help improve organic traffic.
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