{"id":25229,"date":"2022-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/spring-cleaning-the-url-parameters-tool\/"},"modified":"2022-03-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T00:00:00","slug":"spring-cleaning-the-url-parameters-tool","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/spring-cleaning-the-url-parameters-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring cleaning: the URL Parameters tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">Monday, March 28, 2022<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b>In short:<\/b> We&#8217;re deprecating the URL Parameters tool in Search Console in 1 month. There&#8217;s<br \/>\n  no action required from the current users of the tool.\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"attempt-right\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-8833e210288a.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\n       alt=\"Screenshot of the URL parameter tool at its launch\" class=\"screenshot\"><figcaption>The URL Parameters tool in 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  When the URL Parameters tool launched in<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/new-parameter-handling-tool-helps-with-duplicate-content-issues\/\">2009<\/a> in Search Console&#8217;s<br \/>\n  predecessor, Webmaster Tools, the internet was a much wilder place than it is today.<br \/>\n  <code>SessionID<\/code> parameters were very common, CMSes had trouble organizing parameters, and<br \/>\n  browsers often broke links. With the URL Parameters tool, site owners had granular control over<br \/>\n  how Google crawled their site by specifying how certain parameters affect the content on their<br \/>\n  site.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Over the years, Google became much better at guessing which parameters are useful on a site and<br \/>\n  which are &mdash;plainly put&mdash; useless. In fact, only about 1% of the parameter<br \/>\n  configurations currently specified in the URL Parameters tool are useful for crawling. Due to the<br \/>\n  low value of the tool both for Google and Search Console users, we&#8217;re deprecating the URL<br \/>\n  Parameters tool in 1 month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Going forward you don&#8217;t need to do anything to specify the function of URL parameters on your<br \/>\n  site, Google&#8217;s crawlers will learn how to deal with URL parameters automatically.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If you need more control, you can use<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-txt-intro\/\">robots.txt rules<\/a> (for example, you can specify<br \/>\n  parameter orders in an <code>allow<\/code> rule) or use<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/localized-versions\/\"><code>hreflang<\/code><\/a> to specify<br \/>\n  language variations of content.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If you have questions or comments, you can catch us on<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/googlesearchc\" class=\"external-link\">Twitter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">\n  Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/garyillyes.com\/+\" class=\"external-link\">Gary Illyes<\/a>, Search Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, March 28, 2022 In short: We&#8217;re deprecating the URL Parameters tool in Search Console in 1 month. There&#8217;s no action required from the current users of the tool. The URL Parameters tool in 2009 When the URL Parameters tool launched in 2009 in Search Console&#8217;s predecessor, Webmaster Tools, the internet was a much wilder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":80921,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[665],"ar_kb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-25229","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/25229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/25229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=25229"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=25229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}