Link's that are an internal site search?

[Thea88]

Hi hope your're all well.

I sell Red, Blue, Green Widgets within each color I have many sub types, the subtypes change all the time,and a sub type has many variations in itself.

I'd like to set up links that direct customers to popular searches of sub types say:

widgets.com/red/blue-spots....search string...

Will Google crawl these search links and see that there is good content behind it?  How does Google handle links that are also a site search?  Can it be bad and should I "no follow" them?

Hope someone can give me some direction on these, many thanks in advance!

[DSM_UK]

Hi there,

As long as the site search and querystring is inside the website and not linking to a google search page, then yes Google will be able to see what is behind these links (but don't nofollow them or they won't!)
Such as: widgets.com/red/blue-spots?q=large

Many eCommerce sites use querystrings for product categories, if your querystring includes the name of your sub type then it will even include the keyword in the url.

Just make sure any and all canonical tags are implementation (prev and next etc.)

Kind Regards

Jimmy

[Thea88]

Thats really good thanks very much for your answer Jimmy!

[DSM_UK]

No problem, let us know how it goes!