Exclude URL Parameters?

[ArisGast]

Hello,

I am new in SEO and I am trying to understand the basics in URL parameters.

Let’s assume that I have an ecommerce site with

• Categories (Category1, Category2)
• Views (listview=1, listview=2)
• Orders (OrderBy=1, OrderBy=2)
• Pages (pg=1, pg=2)

Why should I add google to index pages with different views and Listing orders? What is the benefit for the site to have the same content with different order?

I am not sure but maybe only need pages in order to google to “travel” between the pages?

For example:

www.mydomain.com/books/pg=1

www.mydomain.com/books/?order=date

www.mydomain.com/books/?listview =1

The products in pages (pg) will always include products in order and listview? Why should google index again the content?

Furthermore, from the last time that google index the pg=1 the products has changed.

Thank you in advanced

[TimHolmes]

Hey there ArisGrast,

Personally, I would probably canonicalise the category pages to the original base category to reduce the risk of duplicate content. But that is just me.

I would also suggest setting up your website in Google's Search Console. Once in here you can then set the crawl rate and other crawl elements such as URL Parameters.

First if not already done - add your website. Once your site is verified - either by a meta tag, google tag manager or maybe a hosted file, you can then edit what happens.

On the side menu of the profile in question select -> Crawl -> URL Parameters

Once in this section you can add the variables you do not want indexing.

While in here I would also suggest submitting an XML Sitemap and checking a few other things. If you also have Google Analytics set up you can link your profiles together for added benefits.

Hope this is off use and answers some parts of your question.