exlude/filter link

[sonosail]

My site has many page references that I wish to exclude from the crawl. Like http://mysite.com/mypage.asp?page=2.
So I would like to exclude any link that contains   ?page=   .  I've tried it a number of ways but can't manage to get to work.

I can't imagine that this would involve anthing to do with regex.  Just a simple string match. 

Thanks in advance.

Randy Browning

[Webhelpforums]

Hi,

You probably already have, but check the output filters help :: Do Not List URLs That Match Paths / Strings / Regex

(Also make sure you disable easy sitemap generator mode so you can see all the options.)


Have you tried adding:

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:mypage.asp?page= (with the colon in front for a "path match")
?

Actually

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?page= should work as well since that makes a "string/text match".

If it does not work, please email me with your website address, and I will be happy to create a project file for you!

[sonosail]

Easy mode is off.  I see where it should be entered. Syntax just never seemed to right or something.  Let me give your suggestion a try.

Thanks very much.

Randy Browning

[Webhelpforums]

In the article I linked arlier, there's also a demo project you can try that demonstrates output exclude filters using both regular expressions, string/text match and path match!

[sonosail]

Saw the file but haven't tried it. I'll load it and take a look.
Thanks again.

Randy Browning