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URL parameters

URL parameters

         

jameswilsonjw455

6:05 am on Oct 16, 2021 (gmt 0)

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Hello Everybody
Please suggest these two url will be counted as duplicate URLs?

No parameter
www.abc.com/ar

With Parameters
www.abc.com/ar?source_campaign=ar&medium=text&source=google_ads

lucy24

4:13 pm on Oct 16, 2021 (gmt 0)

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In GSC--and probably other search engines’ Webmaster Tools--you can tell them which parameters to ignore. And you can always include a "canonical" among your metas.

When it's a case of

example.com/stuff
vs.
example.com/stuff?long-string-of-parameters

you can generally trust the search engine to recognize that they're the same. You only have to worry when you're on a CMS that returns identical content for

example.com/widgets/blue
and
example.com/blue/widgets

That's where a "canonical" might become important.