This is what my intuition was telling me too. I think the only thing that made me re-consider was that I started receiving traffic for those links with arguments.
Thanks for your input!
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RE: Canonicals for Real Estateposted in Technical SEO
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Canonicals for Real Estateposted in Technical SEO
A real estate site has a landing page for a particular zip code:
On this page, there are links which add arguments to the URL, resulting in structures like this:
site.com/zip/99999?maxprice=1000000&maxbeds=3
My question is on using a canonical URL for the pages with arguments. These pages may have lots of duplicate content, so should I direct search engines back to the base URL for the search? (site.com/zip/99999)
A side note is that these pages with arguments could have no listings returned (no listings found) or could come back with listings (then it wouldn't be duplicate), but that can change on a day to day basis.