I'm developing a website to display data in a database. As I add features I find that I need more and more query parameters.
Are there negative consequences in terms of site visibility, SEO, etc. if I periodically add or remove query parameters?
Is there an alternative to using query parameters?
Can I concatenate them into a single query parameter?
I want people to be able to link to the data visualizations. The parameters themselves have zero value as search keywords, though they are preceded by keywords.
Here is a fake example of the last part of my URL:
this-part-contains-keywords.php?sty=15&lay=1&fmt=0
The parameter values are always integers.