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How to remove Parameters from Google Search Console?
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 Hi All, Following are parameter configuration in search console - Parameters - fl 
 Does this parameter change page content seen by the user? - Yes, Changes, reorders, or narrows page content.
 How does this parameter affect page content? - Narrow
 Which URLs with this parameter should Googlebot crawl? - Let Googlebot decide (Default)Query - Actually it is filter parameter. I have already set canonical on filter page. Now I am doing tracking of filter pages via data layer and tag manager so in google analytic I am not able to see filter url's because of this parameter. So I want to delete this parameter. Can anyone please help me? Thanks! 
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 Hey, You don't need to delete any thing. Just go SC and use as default. If you already used canonical tag, you don't need to worry for the same. Thanks Rajesh 
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 I got a feeling you're confusing two things here. What would you like to do in Google Analytics? As before we were only talking as far as I know about Google Search Console. 
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 Hi Martijn, It was Narrow only, still not able to see full filter url in google analytic. Thanks! 
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 If you don't want Google to look at them just go with the narrow parameter option. Filtering is the same. 
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