In this SEO Office Hours Short, we tackle a common issue: tracking parameters appearing in Google Search results. Learn why this happens and how to prevent it, with practical tips on using the Real Canonical URL. We explore noindex meta tags and robots.txt, weighing the pros and cons to help you maintain a clean, user-friendly search presence.
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Speaker: John Mueller
Products Mentioned: Search Console
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Perfect answer. @john i know that very less people were using but url parameters in gsc , dont you think was a good solution?
I have same answer @BellFantsProduction
Thanks John, this is really helpful. I faced similar problem, I had thousands of urls crawled by Google for very few real pages. It took months to fix this problem even with canonical rel.