Title: URL Issues Last modified: January 24, 2022 --- # URL Issues * Resolved [madrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madrian/) * (@madrian) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-issues-11/) * Hello, * I recently had the YITH WooCommerce AJAX Product Filter installed on my WordPress. com website. After a couple of weeks, I noticed that the Google Search Console set up for my site had flagged roughly 40k+ excluded URLs. When looking into this issue, I found that this plugin had created a page for every single activatable filter, and considering there were around 10-15 different product filters available, this caused a giant amount of pages. I changed the setting to stop the filter from creating separate pages, but that didn’t work. I decided to remove the plugin, but WordPress still recognizes the filter pages as active, even though it just redirects the user to the regular page itself. * I have blocked the links in my robot.txt file, and excluded them from Google Search Console, but the URLs still exist on the site and on GSC, and I can’t seem to find a resolution to the issue. Any assistance with this issue would be greatly appreciated. As a side note, I currently have a WordPress.com-hosted website, so it is not easy for me to access the internal files within my site. * The link added to this post is only one page out of many just like it. How it doesn’t bring up a 404 error is beyond me. Could it be a cache issue? * Best, Matthew. - This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by [madrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madrian/). - This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by [madrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madrian/). * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Furl-issues-11%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [Iván Sosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivansosa/) * (@ivansosa) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-issues-11/#post-15287286) * Hi there, * hope you are doing well 🙂 * The problem is not that the plugin creates different pages. The plugin adds query strings to the URL and for Google Search Console this is “duplicated” content. * To solve the problem on the plugin, you need to set: * – Enable SEO option: yes – Meta tag: noindex, nofollow – Add “nofollow” to filter anchors: YES (not necessary but recommended) * I hope it helps you. * Have a great day! * Thread Starter [madrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madrian/) * (@madrian) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-issues-11/#post-15288689) * Thanks for the advice, I will redownload the plugin and give it a try! Just in case I need to remove the plugin for any reason though, how would I solve this issue without the plugin, since the query strings were still there after I tried deleting it? * Best, Matthew. * Thread Starter [madrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madrian/) * (@madrian) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-issues-11/#post-15311185) * [@ivansosa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivansosa/) After changing the settings and waiting, the query strings aren’t phasing out, and are actually continuing to populate GSC. I’m not sure what to do at this point, as I figured they would slowly fissile out. Is there something else that I need to do besides changing these settings? * Thanks for the help! * Plugin Support [Giuseppe Madaudo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askmagic/) * (@askmagic) * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-issues-11/#post-15311361) * Hi there, unfortunately what Ivan says is the only thing that you can do for this. I think that you should wait some days and check again. * Plugin Support [Alessio Torrisi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alessio91/) * (@alessio91) * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-issues-11/#post-15438401) * Hi there, Sine we have not received a reply on your side, we will proceed to set this inquiry as resolved. However, for further assistance, do not hesitate to open a new thread. Best regards! 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