Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search To Get Better At URL Parameter Handling?

As part of the Search Off The Record podcast from Google on crawling, which we briefly covered on Friday, Gary Illyes from Google said he is investigating ways for Google to handle URL parameters ...
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Google Sunsetting URL Parameters Tool Next Month

Google plans to deprecate the URL Parameters tool next month, saying it's no longer needed because Google can deal with parameters automatically. Google is sunsetting the URL Parameters tool in Search ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Can Lose Track Of Tons Of URL Parameters; Why Canonicals Are Important

John Mueller of Google had an interesting reply to a question around linking to a page without a rel canonical attribute on it, and that page has URL parameters on it for necessary tracking purposes.
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Google’s Gary Illyes Continues To Warn About URL Parameter Issues

Google's Gary Illyes continues to warn SEO professionals and website owners about URL parameter crawl issues. Gary Illyes warns about URL parameter issues on LinkedIn. He advises using robots.txt to ...
Search Engine Land

Google Lets You Tell Them Which URL Parameters To Ignore

A new feature has appeared in the Site Configuration Settings Sections of Google Webmaster Tools. The setting, called Parameter Handling, enables site owners to specify up to 15 parameters that Google ...