Need Help with No Index'ed Pages (that are not actually "no index")

SLegierski · a month ago

We recently started digging into our SEO and noticed a large amount of pages that have been labeled as "noindex" by Google. Thing is, these pages are NOT no index. We don't have any idea where these links are coming from.

The format of the link is as follows - "Normal URL" then a BUNCH of random text, for example "/cs/c/?cta_guid=ccad5b3b-f56d-462d-a6a5-9109a467fa54&signature=AAH58kHk21emFavFkQ0RZKD_mUTu08esvw&pageId=61069518138&placement_guid=f63b01f7-8830-4806-91b0-41a644973148&canon=https%3A%2F%2F" then, another link that is a normal URL.

Does anyone have any idea on how to even approach this. We have about 60 pages on the site, and according to Google Search Console, there are 179 NoIndex links. No idea what to do here.

Thanks for reading! Hopefully someone will know whatsup.

TomM2 · a month ago

Hey @SLegierski these are tracking queires that would be added by HubSpot CTAs to track clicks/visits. It can easily happen that an automated SEO tool will pick these up as "real" urls as they will be loaded when someone visits your page with the CTAs on them. They will also likely be follow links to keep the link authority across your links. CTAs have a redirect set to track clicks too so the SEO tool is likely looking at this redirect and saying that is no-index, which is true. But your terminating page isn't.

I'd usually just ignore these are it's effectively a false read that won't affect your SEO.

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SLegierski · 3 weeks ago

Hello @TomM2 thank you for the response! I have marked the queston solved. Thanks

TomM2 · a month ago

Hey @SLegierski these are tracking queires that would be added by HubSpot CTAs to track clicks/visits. It can easily happen that an automated SEO tool will pick these up as "real" urls as they will be loaded when someone visits your page with the CTAs on them. They will also likely be follow links to keep the link authority across your links. CTAs have a redirect set to track clicks too so the SEO tool is likely looking at this redirect and saying that is no-index, which is true. But your terminating page isn't.

I'd usually just ignore these are it's effectively a false read that won't affect your SEO.

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Cna15 · 3 weeks ago

Hi @TomM2 thanks for this response. I have 1700 such URLs. Is it still safe to ignore them?

TomM2 · 2 weeks ago

Hey @Cna15 is this 1700 urls you believe should be real pages or 1700 pages you're just seeing regular urls with query strings on?

What system are you seeing these errors on? Have you built filters in these tools to ignore urls with tracking query strings?

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Cna15 · 2 weeks ago

Hey @TomM2 , these are 1700 regular URLs with query strings on them. I found them on GSC. Let me know what you think.

Linusjohansson · 2 weeks ago

Having the exact same issue, over 1200 pages / CTA URLs. Started mid june, before that a stedy amount of 400 urls, then it took of as a rocket with these strings, and can also see that during same period of time we have a decrease in traffic, so of course im worried that it does have an impact on Google?

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