Can u SEO a search page result?

can u build inbound links to a search result from wordpress. say xxxxxx.com/?s=SEO&x=0&y=0 and it will be indexed by google ??

 

Yes you can, I think I have seen some wordpress tag pages indexed. But of course it doesn't matter if the page is dynamic and will disappear because of who knows what for reason. So if the page stay existing then it can be indexed and stay indexed.

The reason why you don't see many search results from websites indexed is because nobody links to search results and google can't crawl what cannot be found of course.

 

well are the wordpress search page results dynamic or do they stay existing ?

 

Now I took a closer look to it and it is not possible to index search results from wordpress.

I first looked at whether it has a noindex metatag and it does not have it. But then I looked in the robots.txt and there you see that the search results are not alloud to get indexed:

A search result on wordpress looks like this, if you seach for "plugin":
wordpress.org/search/plugin

So everything you search on wordpress will not be indexed. But tag pages can be indexed and often they contain the same links if there is a tag for that keyword of course.

P.S. Also the search function on this forum has a nofollow tag.

 

Yes it's possible to get Wordpress serach results in the index,

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=inurl:wordpress.org/search/&hl=en&filter=0

Google don't like indexing search results though as it doesn't add any value, so it's likely that they'll get dumped from the index at some point.

 

ok thanks for your input guys

 

How about editing the robots.txt then?

 

You are right, but don't think that these results with nofollow will rank high.

@ Johnnie:
How would you edit the robots.txt file of another site? Sounds a little noobish unless you are a hacker.

 

yes, google can index dynamic and static pages but it's better to have static pages for better serp

 

If the WordPress Theme is set up using the "get" parameter in the form element, then yes, those links can be spidered by the search engines (and as such it'd be a good idea to block them from your robots.txt file).

 

what about "post" parameter?

 

Won't work because the POST parameter of the METHOD attribute doesn't generate a static URL. Besides, ask yourself this question. Would you rather have the search results page optimized or the pages that the results page turns up? And which one is going to be far more useful?