Hot answers tagged url-parameters
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Sometimes parameter values completely change the content of the page; sometimes they only reflect a re-ordering; sometimes they do not change the content at all but reflect a referral or tracking campaign or some other information. By default Bing understands each unique URL as a unique page, which can lead to "duplicate content" being indexed and ...
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This isn't really about Google, it's about the specification for URLs - lower and uppercase are different URLs. This applies to query string parameters as well.
If Google knows of 2 different URL variants, it treats them initially as 2 separate URLs. However, if it turns out they have the same content, Google is generally smart enough to count them as the ...
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The purpose of the url parameters feature is to let you help Google identify URL parameters which affect (or don't affect) the content on the page. So in your case the URL parameter you'd setup would be category. You don't need to tell it possible values for that parameter, or the page filename, Googlebot will work that out for itself as it crawls your site.
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It may be Googlebot trying to access jQuery/Javascript and crawl everything it can. There was a recent post on here of someone asking for help because Googlebot was crawling invalid URL's on their site. John M replied about how Googlebot may be looking for more URL's to crawl from scripts on their site. He works for Google Webmaster Tools. You pretty much ...
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How new is your domain? It may very well be this was a popular query on the old domain and thus you are still getting "visitors". Does this map to a valid page or a 404? If you are getting a lot of hits there and it's a 404, then I would remap it (use a .htaccess) to your homepage or something.
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Setup your Google Analytics to exclude the jsessionid
http://cutroni.com/blog/2006/09/21/google-analytics-configuration-mistake-2-query-string-variables/
To force GA to skip certain query string parameters when processing we
enter the unwanted parameters in the ‘Exclude URL Query Parameters:’
filed in the ‘Main Website Profile Information’ section.
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I'd scan the source of your site with grep in linux or totalcommander in windows for any instance of di or since you know the functions that are generating the image URL search the files containing those functions first.
Check if it's happening only for specific images in your application if so which images and what parts of your app are they being used in.
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What the bots dislike most are duplicates. The first thing I'd do is add: <link rel="canonical" ... /> links in the <head> section of your various e-commerce pages and of course review and update your sitemaps.xml file.
See: About rel="canonical"
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