Configure parameter effect in google wmt to reduce overly dynamic urls
-
We are looking at a weatherforecast site with realtime information that is updated every 5 minutes. For this website many urls have 6 parameters
The SEOmoz campagne found duplicate information and overly dynamic urls. Then we went to google wmt section url parameters and configured parameters like day, month, year (effect: none).
The next weekly SEOmoz campagne showed a big reduction in duplicates and small reduction overly dynamic urls.
How can we reduce these 'errors' further?
-
Thx for the great advice. We have a lot to do.
-
Good question! Unfortunately, the Moz web app isn't as sophisticated as Google in ignoring superfluous parameters, but there are some ways to deal with these errors.
In your situation I would consider implementing canonical tags on URLs with different parameters. This only makes sense if the pages actually are canonical, near-duplicates of each other where the only thing that changes is small amounts of updating weather information.
This might actually improve your search engine rankings, as well.
For the Moz crawl report, it will ignore duplicate title and content warnings for pages that have correct canonical tags. (you will see an increase of the number of canonical in your report, but this is just a notice)
Hope this helps. Best of luck with your SEO!
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Is there a report I can run to get a list of all pages indexed by Google for my website?
I want to get a CSV file of all the pages that are indexed by Google and other search engines so I can create and .htaccess file of 301 redirects
Moz Pro | | etraction0 -
Why site is getting ranked in top three positions on Bing and Yahoo but not in Google?
My site Business-Training-Schools.com is getting descent traffic from Bing and Yahoo but very little from Google. Can you please help me in finding out the root cause of it?
Moz Pro | | HQP0 -
API callback parameter
I'm using the free API, and would like to use jQuery to fetch the JSON data outputted by the API. I need to make a JSON-P request, and for this I need to be able to pass some form of callback parameter in the url. I'd like to know if this feature is available, and if so what parameter I need to specify in my request. Of course I could just CURL to the API, but that's really a fallback for if I can't get the data using JS. Thanks
Moz Pro | | jgt19850 -
Rankings in Google UK
Hi there, Can someone explain the difference between the results in Google UK - the default is 'The Web', whereas I can opt to choose 'Pages from the UK'. My question is: If I'm tracking rankings for Google United Kingdom in SEOMoz, is it tracking the results from 'Pages from the UK' or the default setting of 'The Web'? Are there any statistics on how many people choose to see 'Pages from the UK'? Thanks
Moz Pro | | columbus0 -
How is a site really ranking when taking into account Google places?
When I do a rankings search for one of my sites on Google and it appears high in Google places, SEO Moz tracks this as its ranking - but is this its organic ranking? My clients are wondering if things have changed and so am I? Does ranking in the Google places/map appearing on front page of google count as your ranking for that keyword? Client keeps ignoring the Google places ranking and goes looking for a placement farther down... Please explain this probably simple question to me... and if you have official Google references for this, please include them. I appreciate it a lot... be blessed ben
Moz Pro | | creativeguy0 -
Getting SEOMoz reports to ignore certain parameters
I want the SEOMoz reports to ignore duplicate content caused by link-specific parameters being added to URLs (same page reachable from different pages, having marker parameters regarding source page added to the URLs). I can get Google and Bing webmaster tools to ignore parameters I specify. I need to get SEOMoz tools to do it also!
Moz Pro | | SEO-Enlighten0 -
How do I delete a url from a keyword campaign
I have a couple of urls that are associated with the keywords in my campaign. They are no longer valid so how do I remove them?
Moz Pro | | PerriCline0 -
How to handle crawl diagnostic errors for the same url. /products & /products/
I have copied on of the errors out of the crawl diagnostics report. Both /products and /products/ are returning an error, and both have pretty good domain authority so I feel like its hurting my site that these show up this way. Both urls create the same page, should I just setup a 301 on the /products with no slash or will that cause more harm... I am using the MODx cms system and that could have something to do with it. | Products | Datalight http://www.datalight.com/products 1 37 5 Products | Datalight http://www.datalight.com/products/ | 1 | 30 | 1 |
Moz Pro | | tjsherrill0