Hi there I added a nexgen gallery to on of my wordpress sites and it created duplicates of every page..[ obviously a disaster ] I read that to remove pages I can add this to my robots... [duplicate page url ] Disallow: /pinoleum-roof-blinds/?nggpage=2 could someone please confirm that this page will be removed.. /pinoleum-roof-blinds/?nggpage=2 and the real page /pinoleum-roof-blinds/ Will not be affected... Many thanks in advance..
Since you have webmaster tools, you can use their robots.txt tool to analyze the results of any changes you make to your robots.txt file. Simply past in the new robots.txt file (if it is not crawled yet) and past in the urls you are trying to remove. If it works then it will generate the result of "blocked." But according to what you wrote in your post, it will have the desired result. But still check for yourself. Nobody cares more about your site then you.
Yeah, it looks like you will be safe to use that. You should do a crawl simulator once you removed all the dup pages to see how the search engines will navigate your website.