Will robots.txt remove indexed search pages?

Question by Network Technology · Oct 18, 2026

Will robots.txt remove indexed search pages?

Asked by Network Technology • Oct 18, 2026

Question from the article "OpenCart: How we stop search URLs and clean crawl budget in Google".

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Network Technology • Staff Oct 18, 2026 12:57

Not by itself. For removal we use noindex, 410 for specific URLs, or temporary Removals as a helper.

More in the article: https://ntg.bg/en/blog/opencart-k-search-url-crawl-budget-google

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