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Thanks Guys...

Yeah, I figure that's the right path to take based on what we know... But I love to hear others chime in so I can blame it all on you if something goes wrong - ha!

Another Note: Do you think this will cause some kind of unnatural anomaly when the robots.txt file is edited? All of a sudden these links will now be counted (we assume).

It's likely the answer is no because Google still knows about the links.. they just don't count them - but still thought I'd throw that thought out there.

Ok...

So I add tracking parameters to some of my social media campaigns but block those parameters via robots.txt. This helps avoid duplicate content issues (Yes, I do also have correct canonical tags added)... but my question is -- Does this cause me to miss out on any backlink magic coming my way from these articles, posts or links?

Example url: www.mysite.com/subject/?tracking-info-goes-here-1234

• Canonical tag is: www.mysite.com/subject/
• I'm blocking anything with "?tracking-info-goes-here" via robots.txt
• The url with the tracking info of course IS NOT indexed in Google but IT IS indexed without the tracking parameters.

What are your thoughts?

• Should I nix the robots.txt stuff since I already have the canonical tag in place?
• Do you think I'm getting the backlink "juice" from all the links with the tracking parameter?

What would you do?

Why?

Are you sure?