hello
I have a Joomla website in two language composed of more than 12'000 page. The template used for this site have two "Font Size button" who allow to increase/decrease the font size of the site.
I launched my site 5 months ago and Google have well indexed everything and I'm happy. However I disabled now this Font Size button because I read in many place the fact to use this kind of button can result in duplicate content. Of course this is serious issue because instead to be indexed 1 time the site is indexed 3 time and this can be a case of duplicate content and can result to get a bad Google ranking.
That mean I have pages:
- with normal font size
- with larger font size having url who contain: ?fontstyle=f-larger
- with larger font size having url who contain: ?fontstyle=f-smaller
I see in Google Webmaster Tools crawling problem who result in more than 60'000 error 404 page. Most of those problem are related to this "fontstyle" attribute who is now no more present. I setup many weeks ago inside Google Webmaster Tools "URL parameters" for the attribute "fontstyle" for try to remove from the Google index all pages/url who contain "fontstyle". Unfortunately this seem to not work because instead to remove all URL/page already indexed with this attribute, their number continue to increase.
I have same problem with some other attribute like criteria, limit and task.
I would like to know if the fact to setup the robots.txt for stop Google to continue to crawl all page who contain the above attribute can be a solution.
I don't know what I can do for remove from Google index and inside Google Webmaster Tools all this 404 error page... I read maany thing about and many contradictory solution so I'm totally lost...
Somebody have some suggestions please?
thank for your time..
Cheers
