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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Gary Illyes warns about URL parameter issues on LinkedIn. He advises using robots.txt to manage URL parameters. This matters because it affects site crawling and indexing efficiency. Google's Gary ...

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 ...

Mozilla Firefox 102 was released today with a new privacy feature that strips parameters from URLs that are used to track you around the web. Numerous companies, including Facebook, Marketo, Olytics, ...