How to fix search results indexable on Squarespace

Steps for Squarespace

1. In your Squarespace Admin, go to Pages → find your Search Page (if it exists as a standalone page) → click the gear icon → SEO tab → check 'Hide Page from Search Engines'. This adds noindex to that page.
2. If your search results appear at a path like /search?q=, inject the noindex tag site-wide for search pages by going to Settings → Advanced → Code Injection → paste the following into the 'Page Header' field with a URL-condition check: <script>if(window.location.pathname.startsWith('/search')){document.head.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend','<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">')}</script>
3. For robots.txt: Squarespace does not allow direct robots.txt editing. Instead, rely on the noindex tag approach above — Googlebot will honor noindex even without a robots.txt Disallow.
4. Verify with Google Search Console URL Inspection.

What is search results indexable?

When a visitor searches your store, the results appear on a dynamically generated URL — for example, `/search?q=red+shoes` or `/search-jobs?category=sales&location=texas`. These URLs are "internal search result pages." Unlike your product or category pages, search result pages contain no unique content of their own — they just reflect whatever a user happened to type. Because the query string can be almost anything, your site can generate millions of slightly different URLs, each showing slightly different (or empty) results. Right now, Google can find and index those URLs, meaning they appear — or could appear — in search engine results.

Indexable internal search pages damage your SEO in three concrete ways. First, they dilute your crawl budget: Googlebot wastes time fetching thousands of low-value search URLs instead of your actual product and category pages — pages that actually drive revenue. Second, search result pages are "thin content" in Google's eyes (little original text, no unique value), which can drag down your site's overall quality signal and reduce rankings for your real pages. Third, an unbounded query-string space creates a theoretically infinite number of URLs, which can cause Google to deprioritize your entire domain as a crawl and index target. Blocking these pages costs you nothing in organic traffic (nobody reaches your site by Googling your own search results) and frees up crawl budget and authority for the pages that actually sell.

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