Do Query Strings strip away SEO value?
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Hopefully a yes or no answer to this one...
If I have a link pointing to my site as below, is the SEO value stripped away because of the query in the URL?
https://mysite.co.uk/?WT.mc_id=Test
The above mentioned page also has the canonical tag: on it.
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Hi,
At least not in above case. As you mentioned that you also have rel canonical tag that means you don't want to index query string URL.
Thanks
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