Google to retire the URL Parameters tool in Search Console
Google this week announced the deprecation of the URL Parameters tool in Search Console. It will happen in 1 month.
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Google this week announced the deprecation of the URL Parameters tool in Search Console. It will happen in 1 month.
Google says it is better at guessing which parameters are useful on a site and which are useless. According to Google, only 1% of the parameter configurations currently specified in the URL Parameters tool are useful for crawling, and because of the low value of the tool, Google is deprecating it.
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With the URL Parameters tool, site owners had granular control over how Google crawled their site by specifying how certain parameters affect the content on their site.