Crawl Rule to Exclude User Profiles in SharePoint 2013

Crawl Rule to Exclude User Profiles in SharePoint 2013

We got a requirement of excluding some of the Test and admin users profiles from the Search Results so that it does not appear in search results. I could not found any of the solution from Google , so thought of writing this post , hoping it can help somebody.

I tried many rules but they all failed and than I thought of Using Regular Expression as it is supported in Crawl rules.

So here is what worked for me for my user profiles to be excluded :

http://mysite.domain.coml:200/person.aspx[?]accountname=Domain%5Ctest.*

Please check

1.  Use regular expression syntax for matching this rule

2.  Exclude all items in this path

3.  Exclude complex URLs (URLs that contain question marks - ?) 

Example of user profile that get excluded is http://mysite.domain.com:200/Person.aspx?accountname=Domain\test.user3 

Thank You for reading.