Canonicalize or Block?

[yaelslater]

Hi Mozers,

We have staff profile pages w/ one main URL and then URLs with query parameters and jump links to take you to different parts of the page.

The longer URLs with parameters canonicalize to the main pages but should they also be nonidexed?

Thanks,

Yael

[ThompsonPaul]

Canonical and noindex are contradictory, Yael. It's either.or, never both. And in the case you describe, I doubt you could no-index the versions with parameters without doing it to the main URL as well (since technically they are all the same page code).

What you are describing is the classic use case for canonical tags - the exact same page referred to by multiple different URLs.

Hope that makes sense?

Paul

[Nigel_Carr]

Hi Yael

I completely agree - it is pretty much what canonical tags were developed for.

Regards

Nigel

[yaelslater]

Got it, thanks!!!

[yaelslater]

Thanks!