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Bing: Query parameters for normalization found

by Mark806
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Got this message on a few of my sites...I Cant seem to figure out how to correct it. Would this prevent my sites rankings from moving up in bing/yahoo? I did some quality link building that moved a few of my other sites up fast, the ones with this message seem to have a "freeze" on them after building the same links...
#bing #found #normalization #parameters #query
  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    It has to do with your internal urls.

    www.domain.com/internal-page?printable-version
    http://www.domain.com/internal-page?...rce=feedburner
    www.domain.com/internal-page?sessionid=123


    The above examples are all the same as www.domain.com/internal-page, but search engines might pick up other versions of that same URL.

    Both Bing and Google detect them, and they usually treat them appropriately. They make the settings available since some sites are complex and their auto-detection might be off. 99% of the time you don't have to do anything if it's saying it found query parameters.

    You could however, make sure that all versions of your URLs have rel=canonical pointing to the version you want indexed. Having your query parameters detected properly and canonical tags in place, will reduce duplicate content issues and improve crawl efficiency and % of the site indexed (especially important for large sites).
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark806
    Thanks for your response..so you dont think it would be negative towards rankings?
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by Mark806 View Post

      Thanks for your response..so you dont think it would be negative towards rankings?
      No, it probably won't.
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