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 ...

URL parameters can create infinite URLs, causing crawl inefficiencies. E-commerce sites are most affected by this issue. Google is exploring solutions, including new algorithms and improved ...

Google announced that the URL parameters tool is going away next month, citing the tool has little or low value. Google will be sunsetting this feature on April 26, 2022 and you will no longer be able ...

Google’s John Mueller cleared up a misconception about the URL parameter tool in Search Console, saying it doesn’t actually remove URLs. This topic came up in a recent Google Webmaster Central hangout ...

Over the past couple of weeks, there has been an increase in complaints around Google Search listing URLs with the srsltid URL parameter tagged along to the URL, as the canonical URL in Google Search.

In 2009, Google launched the parameter handling feature of Google webmaster tools, which enabled site owners to specify the parameters on their site that were optional vs. required. A year later, they ...