Does Google treats URLS with different arguments as different pages?

by d0de

Posted: 12 years ago 3 replies

On my wordpress site, I use a plugin that can sort the posts by rating rather than date posted. To use this function, you just append

Code:

?r_sortby=highest_rated&r_orderby=desc

to the end of the URL.

My question is: does google treat

Code:

poodletraining.com/poodles/?r_sortby=highest_rated&r_orderby=desc

as a different page than

Code:

poodletraining.com/poodles/

, or are they treated as the same page?

I don't want to split my link building between two pages that will split link juice in G's eyes, but I would like to use the different links in different places on my sites.

Thanks!

#arguments #google #pages #treats #urls

paulgl 12 years ago

In 2012, it doesn't matter. Different urls? Perhaps.
Different pages, not really.

Having more than one "url" (technically everything after
the "?" is not really a part of the url) is very common today.

(Try typing warriorforum.com/?=whoknowswhat into your browser
and see what loads)

But, if more people see this thread, they will tell you to
panic. No need to panic. Google is one smart cookie in 2012.

Almost any site worth it's salt will have some sort of internal
way of not indexing results given from internal searches,
sorting, etc. But that's for other reasons, not SEO.

Paul
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UMS 12 years ago

Google will know they are the same content and that isn't an issue.

You can control which version is preferred by canonicalization.

See Canonicalization - Webmaster Tools Help
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d0de 12 years ago

Well that clears that up. Thanks guys!
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