mslina2002 - 5:45 am on Sep 25, 2012 (gmt 0)

I always "noindex, follow" my search results pages simply because you can have umpteen variations of the same thing and we know people and bots can spell. Otherwise you risk having pages of the same thing in the index causing dupe content.

example.com/searchResults.php?query=lavender
example.com/searchResults.php?query=Lavender
example.com/searchResults.php?query=Lavendar+oil
example.com/searchResults.php?query=lavender+oils
example.com/searchResults.php?query=lavender+Oils&page=2

I would suggest building a bit of an evidence base for your decision. First up, do your search result pages attract search traffic?

I never thought to investigate this aspect. If the answer was 'yes' what would you recommend?