Social bookmarks, variables, WMT, 301s

[smallcompany]

So I just checked my AddThis account that I haven't look into for some time. I see some number of bookmarks. Most of them are in the way like:

example.com/page.html?variable=v1&gclid=whatever

"variable" is from my PPC campaigns and "gclid" is Google's thing.

Each of those URLs qualifies as a different one as GCLID is always a unique string (Google's click ID).

In order to fix duplicate content issue, I've been doing:

- 301 in .htaccess to erase GCLID (RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING})
- I used Google's WMT and its "Parameter handling" feature to ignore those variables

Now I wonder how this affects the bookmarks that I see in AddThis?

Thanks

[tedster]

I don't see how it would affect the bookmarks - the URLs are just getting a legitimate redirect when they are requested from your server. Am I missing something?

[smallcompany]

I don't see how it would affect the bookmarks

Sorry - my question was wrongly formulated.

I thought about how my redirects would affect what Google sees?

I wouldn't even ask about it but the number of what AddThis reports and what I see in WMT (zero) made me ask. I was confused at the moment.

My redirects should be OK as they clear up things about different variables (clean up the URL). I know Google does not report everything.

Thanks