How I stop indexing thread pages ?

**azyya** · 11-28-2011 11:04 AM

Hello all, any one can tell me how I stop indexing thread pages,

for example:http://xxxxx.com/topic-thread-page2.html
http://xxxxx.com/topic-thread-page3.html
http://xxxxx.com/topic-thread-page500.html

just index firest page http://xxxxx.com/topic-thread.html

Thank you

**Mert Gökçeimam** · 11-28-2011 01:19 PM

I honestly have no idea why you want to accomplish those but there is no specific way within the url rewrite rules you are using.

**Brian Cummiskey** · 11-28-2011 03:38 PM

You could try adding
Disallow: /*-page1.html
Disallow: /*-page2.html
.
.
.
Disallow: /*-pageN.html

into your robots .txt, but I would HIGHLY not recommend doing this ever. 2nd pages and on are all perfectly capable of ranking for terms on their own.

**azyya** · 11-28-2011 05:40 PM

Hello Brian & Mert, I prefer doing it by vbseo sitemap generator, if there a way or option because all posts behind the first post has not benfits in search engine.

**Brian Cummiskey** · 11-28-2011 05:58 PM

This is not a feature of the sitemap generator, and will likely never be. You would need to custom 'hack' it to do this, and will not be supported.

**azyya** · 11-28-2011 06:50 PM

Hello again Brian , I appreciate your help but what I'm think about is more then hack support I'm looking for increase monthly visitors of my site and I doing what search engines said especially google and there are many legal smart tips should apply it on your site if you smart webmaster.

For who interested I found this solution search in SHOWTHREAD temp

Code:

<head>

after that add

Code:

<if condition="$pagenumber>1"><meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" /></if>

**Brian Cummiskey** · 11-29-2011 12:21 AM

I don't see how blocking content will help you at all.....

**azyya** · 11-30-2011 04:42 PM

Focus on what Matt Cutts speaks in his videos & blog

**Brian Cummiskey** · 11-30-2011 05:24 PM

You've mis-interpretted what he is saying. He says sites that break content into pages on purpose should be avoided.

ie, a how-to
step 1= page 1
step 2 = page 2

and so on.

Logical content that extends to a long mass of words is still fine to page break.

**Notorious** · 12-01-2011 04:53 AM

Originally Posted by azyya

Hello Brian & Mert, I prefer doing it by vbseo sitemap generator, if there a way or option because all posts behind the first post has not benfits in search engine.

This: Don't include pagination into sitemaps

**azyya** · 12-01-2011 12:24 PM

Hello Brian, as you know Matt Cutts cannot give you a direct info you should know it by your experience, I have a huge forum with more then 6,000,000 visitors a month most of them from Google and I never see one visitor came from 2nd page......so on .

Thank you Notorious >> Done.

**tintin74** · 03-28-2012 09:57 AM

Hello everybody. I don't know if I'm wrong or not, but I totally agree with azyya.

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