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Does Google treats URLS with different arguments as different pages?

by d0de
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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
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    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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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    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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  • Profile picture of the author d0de
    Well that clears that up. Thanks guys!
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