I have old pages that need to be removed so they won’t show up in google search. One of the suggested answers was to have a redirect 410 page instead of 404. I have https://www.example.com/?product* 410.html 410 in the _redurects file. and I have 410.html file. This didn’t seem to solve my problem. Is there anything I did wrong?
I assume you’re using Netlify Redirects?
Going by the examples in the docs, try removing the base URL, and see if that makes a difference.
/?product* 410.html 410
would the * include all the possible pages that start with /?product
Actually, per the query params section, the syntax must be different. I think something like:
/product/* 410.html 410
Edit:
I think so.
so should I omit the question mark from /?product
See my previous reply, give that a try.
That didn’t seem to work.
Hmm, not sure then. You’ll need to review the query params docs (linked in a previous reply) and experiment with a few iterations
Also, try asking your question in the Netlify Gitter channel, they’ll likely be able to help you better.