This is VERY helpful, thank you so much.
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RE: Should I canonicalize URLs with no query params even though query params are always automatically appended?posted in Technical SEO
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Should I canonicalize URLs with no query params even though query params are always automatically appended?posted in Technical SEO
There's a section of my client's website that presents quarterly government financial data. Users can filter results to see different years and quarters of financial info.
If a user navigates to those pages, the URLs automatically append the latest query parameters. It's not a redirect...when I asked a developer what the mechanism was for this happening, he said "magic." He honestly didn't know how to describe it.
So my question is, is it ok to canonicalize the URL without any query parameters, knowing that the user will always be served a page that does have query parameters? I need to figure out how to manage all of the various versions of these URLs.