Link value when with parameter ?
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Hi all,
I added some links to my website, but because I want to track traffic and other things, all links were created with Google URL Builder and slightly customized.
So the end result looks like this: http://www.example.com/example_home.asp?acs=986lfqa&utm_source=keyword.fr&utm_medium=RP&utm_content=example_Link&utm_campaign=General
All links are containing keyword as anchor text. And the question is if Google is smart enough to figure out that the anchor text is for http://www.example.com and not for the whole /example_home.asp............
I'm afraid that it will see it as entirely different page and don't pass link value.
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Yes, thanks a lot for the answer.
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Hi Vasil,
What you can do is add a canonical link to the page.
This ensures that Google sees the page as the given URL no matter which query strings are passed.
rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/home.asp" />
So if you link from another page with:
Then the canonical link makes Google ignore all the query strings, giving juice to just this one URL. For more information? Check out this blog:
Hope this can help you.
-Rasmus
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