Add the following lines to the live robots.txt file on any Magento sites to reduce the search console indexing errors:
Disallow: / catalogsearch /
Disallow: / catalogsearch / result /
Disallow: / catalogsearch / result / index /
The live robots.txt file can be found at the following location on a Magento installation:
/public_html/
There is a much more detailed article regarding the robots.txt file and Magento at this link
A full robot.txt file (which has to be created on all magento sites by default) would be:
# # Robots.txt for Magento Community and Enterprise
# # GENERAL SETTINGS
# Enables robots.txt rules for all crawlers
User-agent: *
# # Crawl-delay parameter: the number of seconds you want to wait between successful requests to the same server.
# # Set a crawl rate, if your server's traffic problems. Please note that Google ignore crawl-delay setting in Robots.txt. You can set up this in Google Webmaster tool
# Crawl-delay: 30
# # Magento sitemap: URL to your sitemap file in Magento
Sitemap: https://www.nordicoutdoor.co.uk/sitemap/sitemap.xml
# # Settings that relate to the UNDER CONSTRUCTION
# # Do not allow indexing files and folders that are required during development: CVS, SVN directory and dump files
Disallow: / CVS
Disallow: / *. Svn $
Disallow: / *. Idea $
Disallow: / *. Sql $
Disallow: / *. Tgz $
# # GENERAL SETTINGS For MAGENTO
# # Do not index the page Magento admin
Disallow: / admin /
# # Do not index the general technical Magento directory
Disallow: / app /
Disallow: / downloader /
Disallow: / errors /
Disallow: / includes /
Disallow: / lib /
Disallow: / pkginfo /
Disallow: / shell /
Disallow: / var /
# # Do not index the shared files Magento
Disallow: / api.php
Disallow: / cron.php
Disallow: / cron.sh
Disallow: / error_log
Disallow: / get.php
Disallow: / install.php
Disallow: / LICENSE.html
Disallow: / LICENSE.txt
Disallow: / LICENSE_AFL.txt
Disallow: / README.txt
Disallow: / RELEASE_NOTES.txt
# # MAGENTO SEA IMPROVEMENT
# # Do not index the page subcategories that are sorted or filtered.
Disallow: / *? Dir *
Disallow: / *? Dir = desc
Disallow: / *? Dir = asc
Disallow: / *? Limit = all
Disallow: / *? Mode *
# # Do not index the second copy of the home page (example.com / index.php /). Un-comment only if you have activated Magento SEO URLs.
# # Disallow: / index.php /
# # Do not index the link from the session ID
Disallow: / *? SID =
# # Do not index the page checkout and user account
Disallow: / checkout /
Disallow: / onestepcheckout /
Disallow: / customer /
Disallow: / customer / account /
Disallow: / customer / account / login /
# # Do not index the search page and CEO, non-optimized link categories
Disallow: / catalogsearch /
Disallow: / catalogsearch / result /
Disallow: / catalogsearch / result / index /
Disallow: / catalog / product_compare /
Disallow: / catalog / category / view /
Disallow: / catalog / product / view /
# # Server Settings
# # Do not index the general technical directories and files on a server
Disallow: / cgi-bin /
Disallow: / cleanup.php
Disallow: / apc.php
Disallow: / memcache.php
Disallow: / phpinfo.php
# # SETTINGS Image indexing
# # Optional: If you do not want to Google and Bing to index your images
# User-agent: Googlebot-Image
# Disallow: /
# User-agent: msnbot-media
# Disallow: /