Search engines crawl the site with parameters
/?p=([0-9]+)
/?cat=([0-9]+)
/?do=([a-z]+)
etc
How make in .htaccess to inform the search engines that such pages no longer exists?
I have only /?page=([0-9]+)
Thanks.
I tried
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(p|cat|do)(.*)$
RewriteRule ^$ http://test.com/simple [R=301,L]
but
http://test.com/?p=23 give me http://test.com/test?p=23 (not http://test.com/test)
http://test.com/?cat=11 give me http://test.com/test?cat=11 (not http://test.com/test)
I would suggest following 301 (Permanent Redirect) rule for you:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^page=.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://test.com/test? [R=301,L]
This will redirect every /?p=([0-9]+) or /?do=([0-9]+) or /?foo=([0-9]+) or /?bar=([0-9]+) etc (any query string except /?page=) to http://test.com/test with R=301 and remove the original query string (notice ? in the end of target URL).
You could add those pages to your robots.txt file to prevent the indexing.
However, somewhere the search engines are finding these links. You should ensure that you are not using them on your site.
If the pages no longer exist, you might consider redirecting (301) them accordingly.
The latter, or some combination therein should sort you out.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(p\=|cat\=|do\=|feed\=|tag\=|m\=|paged\=)(.*)$ RewriteRule ^$ http://www.test.com/\? [R=301,L]