Timeline for Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?
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| Nov 9, 2020 at 11:24 | comment | added | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | It isn't about "stupidity." Different parameter orders are different URLs. Google isn't going to swap them on its own, but it will crawl different versions if it finds links to them. If you have URLs with multiple parameters that you want in search engines you need to make sure that you are very consistent about the order when linking from your own site. It would also be a good idea to implement canonical tags or redirects so that search engines know which version is the preferred order. Then search engines don't have to try to guess about how to deal with the duplicate content. | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 12:45 | comment | added | Calmarius | @DisgruntledGoat I don't think Google is that stupid with GET parameters. | |
| Sep 29, 2011 at 21:26 | vote | accept | scarhand | ||
| Jun 20, 2011 at 0:18 | vote | accept | scarhand | ||
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| Jun 16, 2011 at 13:12 | comment | added | John Conde♦ | @disgruntledGoat very good point! | |
| Jun 16, 2011 at 9:37 | comment | added | DisgruntledGoat | Plus you could get what looks like duplicate content if the parameters are swapped. | |
| Jun 15, 2011 at 18:52 | history | answered | John Conde♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |