Configure parameter effect in google wmt to reduce overly dynamic urls

[theonlinefactory]

We are looking at a weatherforecast site with realtime information that is updated every 5 minutes. For this website many urls have 6 parameters

The SEOmoz campagne found duplicate information and overly dynamic urls. Then we went to google wmt section url parameters and configured parameters like day, month, year (effect: none).

The next weekly SEOmoz campagne showed a big reduction in duplicates and small reduction overly dynamic urls.

How can we reduce these 'errors' further?

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Good question! Unfortunately, the Moz web app isn't as sophisticated as Google in ignoring superfluous parameters, but there are some ways to deal with these errors.

In your situation I would consider implementing canonical tags on URLs with different parameters. This only makes sense if the pages actually are canonical, near-duplicates of each other where the only thing that changes is small amounts of updating weather information.

This might actually improve your search engine rankings, as well.

For the Moz crawl report, it will ignore duplicate title and content warnings for pages that have correct canonical tags. (you will see an increase of the number of canonical in your report, but this is just a notice)

Hope this helps. Best of luck with your SEO!

[theonlinefactory]

Thx for the great advice. We have a lot to do.