Internal Site Search Spam

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

In this case, please click the reported URLs or use the URL inspection tool of your GSC account to figure out how Google is discovering those URLs via the referring page information.

You can also share the screenshot in the sensitive data section after doing so.

Let us know how this goes.

Thank you.

Hello,

The referring URL on those pages is not working.

In this case, we recommend redirecting those pages to 410 status instead so they won’t be indexed and removed from the search results pages.

Since the URLs common path is /search/, then you can add this regex redirect on your site (assuming that you’re not using the /search/ in your actual URLs):

Source: search/(.*)
Maintenance code: 410

Here’s a link you can follow to add a regex redirect:
https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-use-regex-redirects/

Once done, give Google some time to recrawl your site and remove them eventually on the SERPs.

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

We apologize for the delay in response.

Please ensure the Source URL is set to search/(.*) since you are dealing with a regex type redirection.

See if redirecting the unwanted pages will resolve the issue. We can also confirm that the /search/ and ?s= pages are set to noindex in their robots meta so Google shouldn’t be indexing them in the next crawl.

Lookling forward to helping you with this one.

Hello,

Here is the tutorial you can follow: https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-use-regex-redirects/

Here is another one on creating redirects with Rank Math: https://rankmath.com/kb/setting-up-redirections/

In case you want to explore the 301 redirects, here is a dedicated tutorial for that: https://rankmath.com/blog/bulk-301-redirects-wordpress/

Hope that helps.