How to remove crawl errors in google webmaster tools
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In my webmaster tools account it says that I have almost 8000 crawl errors. Most of which are http 403 errors
The urls are
And similar urls. I recently blocked crawl access to my members folder to remove duplicate errors but not sure how i can block access to these kinds of urls since its not really a folder thing.
Any idea on how to?
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In Webmaster Tools, go to URL Parameters under Site Settings. You will probably see some of the parameters you want to block in the list. Click on Edit next to a parameter you want to block like "?app=members" and then choose the appropriate settings to prevent Googlebot crawling.
I don't know if that is the preferred way of doing it, but that should block those dynamic pages.
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