WMT tools - setting parameter for redirected URLs

[neooptic]

Hi everybody.

One of our clients has recently moved from one ecommerce platform to another. During the move, a huge number of URLs have been tidied up to remove dynamic parameters. The old URLs have been redirected to the new, tidy ones.

My question is whether it's worth telling Google in the WMT URL parameters section not to index the parameters of the old URLs. Will this affect the redirects in any way?

Thanks!

[rasmusbang]

Well, if the redirects have been made correctly such that, for example:

http://www.domain.com/product?name=shiny-shoe

is redirected to:

http://www.domain.com/product/shiny-shoe

Then the parameters are not an issue?

But if you are still passing the url parameters on top of the new tidy URLs i would most definately tell Google not to index the parameters. You can either do this in GWT or you can perhaps add a canonical link to each product page?

Best regards,

Rasmus