Add URL parameters in SEOMoz as per GWT?
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Hi, this may be a tall order, or maybe it's already in place and I'm behind the times!
Any chance on getting something like this going? Even handier, have SEOMoz import these settings directly from GWT.
The issue comes into play when looking at my duplicate page content reports; I'm guessing that SEOMoz will continue showing these as duplicates even after I have tweaked GWT to read them properly.
Haven't tested this theory as I just started down this road on GWT myself.
Thanks.
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Thanks Corey, appreciate the answer.
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Personally, I would no longer look at SEOmoz's duplicate content identification if they did this. One thing that's crucial to consider here, is that GWT != Google Search.
Just because GWT adds a suggestive signal for organic search doesn't mean it's going to work (in fact, in my experience, usually it doesn't). A great example of a 100% GWT vs. Google Search mismatch- have you tried "Download Latest Links" in GWT? (http://www.northcutt.com/blog/2012/07/what-download-latest-links-means-for-seo/). I don't know about you, but every time I've tried it, the "new" links range from a month ago to 10 years ago. And they're definitely pages that are long indexed as per a "site:" Google search. Totally out of sync.
There are many more applications of this that I see each week as well. Pages that have long used rel="canonical" correctly still having hundreds of duplicate pages in the index. Parts of Google Analytics working totally different than other parts of Google Analytics. It's a kind of 'Microsoft syndrome' that's formed, whereby teams don't mesh quite like the cohesive public-facing brand image would imply. Your best bet is to configure GWT, use rel="canonical", and while you're at it, work with your application to make sure that no crawler-accessible page ever uses GET variables.
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