Changing the order of items on page against Google Terms & Conditions?

[rayvensoft]

Good day,

I am wondering if anybody here has done something like this before.  I have a page in one of my sites that contains a number of different - but related - free resources.  The resources can be sorted in different ways once the user is on the page.

Now I am starting an outreach campaign, and want to be able to send out custom URLS (which pretty much means they have different query strings after them like '?id=123' ) so that when a person clicks on the link to the page it brings up the stuff they are more likely to be interested in at the top.  I expect - hope - that some of these people will put links back to this page as a result of this.  Now all the links may be slightly different, but they will come to the same page and the content will look slightly different.  I will make sure to have the rel=canonical tag in place.

Does anybody know if this would be in violation of Google Terms and Conditions.  I can't see how, but I wanted to see what the experts here on Moz think before moving forward.

Thanks in advance.

[MattAntonino]

What you're referring to are parameters. You can handle this in a few ways:

1. Block the ones you don't want indexed in Webmasters Tools to prevent duplicate content.

2. Block the ones you don't want indexed in your robots.txt file using

Disallow: /*?

3. Allow it to all be indexed and not worry about Google. This isn't as good for your SEO but if you're worried about "terms" then no, it's fine.  Just better for indexing if you do 1 or 2 above.