Closed A ton of pages with redirect

[BikeGremlin]

Affected version

2.3.4

I did see Google going crazy before, so it could be just Google, but I've noticed a sharp incline in the number of "pages with redirect" Google seems to be finding (and not indexing, which is good, they should not be indexed).



Some page examples:



If I try to test a page, it gives a 303 redirect, for example:

https://www.bikegremlin.net/misc/style-variation?reset=1&t=1730192733%2C5e4a77821bee31dc5c54e7a96ba11548

Not sure if I should do anything about this, but I did notice it.

 

[Jeremy P]

This has come up elsewhere, but we already nofollow the links and noindex the pages. This may be better addressed with larger changes to CSRF validation and our usage of non-idempotent GET requests, but in the meantime it's best to just add these pages to your robots.txt.

 

[XF Bug Bot]

Automated triage: Design issue

Thank you for reporting this issue. The light/dark switcher links change a setting and then redirect, and they are marked nofollow. Google lists them as "page with redirect", which means they are not indexed. Avoiding these URLs entirely would need a change to how these links work. Until then, you can block the style-variation path in robots.txt.

This is an automated assessment. A member of staff may review and update it.