Index trash sweep

Hunts junk pages of your site in the Yandex index — parameters, duplicates, search and pagination pages — and drafts a cleanup plan that spares the useful ones.

Every index accumulates junk over time: parameter URLs from sorting, internal search results, print versions, pagination duplicates — pages that were never meant to show up in search. Individually harmless, together they dilute how a search engine reads site quality and pull crawl budget away from pages that actually deserve to rank.

What it does

Given a domain, the skill checks the overall size of its index as a baseline, then searches for common junk patterns — parameter URLs, internal search, print pages, tag pages, service pagination — and confirms which of them are actually sitting in the index rather than just existing technically. It cross-checks what's already blocked in robots.txt or noindex against what's still open with no good reason.

What you get

A report in chat: a table of junk type, example URLs, roughly how much of the index they occupy, and the right fix for each — clean-param or canonical for parameters, noindex for internal search, careful handling for pagination only where it truly duplicates content. Genuinely ambiguous cases are flagged "check manually" rather than recommended for closure. Run this whenever the index looks much larger than the number of pages that actually matter, after a CMS or catalog-filter change, or as a recurring quarterly check — junk in the index rarely clears on its own.

FAQ

What counts as junk in the index?
Parameter URLs (sorting, UTM tags), internal search result pages, service pagination, print versions and similar technical pages never meant to rank.
Will the skill close these pages itself?
No — it finds them and builds a plan: what to block via robots.txt, what needs noindex, and what needs a canonical tag. You apply the changes.
Could it accidentally flag a useful page as junk?
Ambiguous cases are marked "check manually" rather than recommended for removal, so real traffic isn't put at risk.

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