Excluding search results of certain website

Question

SP search displays all contents that the search keyword hit. But many users at us have complained that it displays too much unhelpful results (e.g. the homepage of teamsite, the hypolink, the overview of lists, the different viewmode ...). Is it possible to limit the display of results only of the correct contents (e.g. xxx.aspx?ID=xxx, xxx.doc and so on) but not the overview site? 

Answer 1

You can restrict the results of search via the Remove URLs from Search Results page (Search Administration --> Search Result Removal).  You can enter the relevant URLs there.  Is this what you're asking?  Thanks! _ M

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- Michael Mukalian - 2010 MS MVP SharePoint Services - MCTS: MOSS 2007 Configuration - http://www.mukalian.com/blog

Answer 2

You can also create custom search scopes to limit the search results to certain content types.

Answer 3

I'v removed the URLs from Search Results, but it displays still in results page. Is it saved in cach? what schould I do?

Answer 4

Can you explain that cocretlly how can I do it?

Answer 5

My suggestion would be to use a crawl rule to exclude certain pages from your results.  You can use wildcards to make sure that say all default.aspx pages aren't crawled or something. But that's just an example and you could exclude as broadly or narrowly as you wanted.  After creating the Crawl Rule you'll need to reindex.

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Answer 6

How can I excute reindex?

Answer 7

Go to Central Administration --> Application Management --> Manage Service Application --> click on Search Service Application

 

Under Crawling you find the Index Reset

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Answer 8

Click on Content Sources from the Search Administration. Then hit the dropdown and click Start Index or Full Crawl (don't have my VM in front of me).

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John Ross
SharePoint Server MVP | Sr. Consultant SharePoint911: SharePoint Consulting
Blog: http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/john
Twitter: @JohnRossJr

Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design

Answer 9

I am trying to do the same thing, but is an index reset and full crawl really necessary?

I am asking because I have created rules excluding filesystem paths using wildcards, and the next incremental crawl removes the items.  However, the fact that using a wildcard with a URL did not remove the items makes me think the reset and full crawl is needed in this case.

Answer 10

Interesting.  The filesystem references do not need an index reset/full crawl but the URL references do.  I tested them this weekend.

Answer 11

Confirmed.  A filesystem exclusion crawl rule does not need an index reset, but a URL reference does.