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    • KAN-Malmo
      KAN-Malmo last edited by

      Hi!

      I'm having some trouble getting Google to index pages which once had a querystring in them but now are being redirected with a 301. The pages have a lot of unique content but this doesn't seem to matter. I feels as if there stuck in limbo (or a sandbox 🙂

      Any clues on how to fix this?

      Thanks / Niklas

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      • irvingw
        irvingw last edited by

        If they are being 301 redirected they will never get indexed because you told Google they no longer exist and this other page now represents it.

        Need a little more info. if they are different URLs with query strings, remove the 301 and handle the query stings in GWMT query parameter tool

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        • KAN-Malmo
          KAN-Malmo @irvingw last edited by

          No off course, I wan't the new url to get indexed since I find that Google in my opinion doesn't favor URL:s with querystrings. But I'm having some problems getting the new urls without querystring indexed. Does Google count these as fresh, or old due to the redirect? I've tried using the query parameter tools and found this less than helpful.

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