Alternate page with proper canonical tag

Hello,

Thanks for contacting us, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

If you don’t see any options on our plugin, please ensure to turn on the advanced mode to see all available options including the canonical field.

The affected URLs are with the query parameters and they are supposed to have the canonical set as the main URL which is already correct as you can see in my screenshot here:

However, they shouldn’t be discovered by Google. You can add the following rules to your robots.txt file in WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Edit Robots.txt to prevent Google from crawling such URLs:

Disallow: *?add_to_wishlist=*

Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Thank you.

Hello,

Can you please share the other URLs besides the add-to-wishlist URLs?

Another way to completely noindex them is to modify the robots meta tag. Please add the filter code below:

add_filter('rank_math/frontend/robots', function ($robots) {
	$url = home_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
	if (strpos($url, '?add-to-wishlist=') !== false) {
		$robots['index'] = "noindex";
		$robots["follow"] = 'nofollow';
		return $robots;
	}
	return $robots;
});

You may refer to this guide on how to add filters to your website: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Looking forward to helping you with this one.

Hello,

Please share some example URLs for those brand names and comparison pages so we can adjust the filter to set them to noindex.

Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

Thank you for sharing the URLs.

Please update the filter to this one to set those filtered pages to noindex:

add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/robots', function( $robots ) {
	$url = home_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
	if (strpos($url,'?add-to-wishlist=') !== false || strpos($url,'?orderby=') || strpos($url,'?add_to_compare=') || strpos($url,'?remove_compare_item=') || strpos($url,'?product_brand=') || strpos($url,'?product_count=') || strpos($url,'?attribute_pa_') || strpos($url,'?attribute_size=') || strpos($url,'?attribute_length=')) {
                $robots['index'] = "noindex";
                $robots["follow"] = 'nofollow';
	        return $robots;
        }
	return $robots;
});

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

You can add the filter to your theme’s functions.php file or you can follow any of the methods mentioned in the guide below to add this filter to your website:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
 
Thank you.