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The part of the URL after the first question mark and before the fragment identifier, often used to pass variable URL parameters to the underlying script.

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I wrote a custom script on our site that appends a Query String to the Contact us Page URL with the product name the customer is asking about. For example, clicking the button redirects the user to ...
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I have a domain in GoDaddy and want to redirect it to another domain in GoDaddy also but the rediret is not passing the query string, is there something I can do so the redirection keeps the query ...
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Our team is working on how to handle query strings. Does it matter in terms of SEO whether we use pascal case, camel case or kebab case? Which is best? https://example.com/page?dealType=m&...
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We're implementing a feature where users can generate unique referral links that they can share and receive rewards when people sign up. The pages themselves have identical content. There are two ...
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I have a page with many cards and with filtering. The filtering is added to the query and I want the h1 to reflect what is filtered. While this is not problem to implement, should I, is this ok from ...
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I have a search page on a hotel property website that can have up to 12 parameters in the url. Note that sometimes it may have none of these parameters. The parameters are all for optional ...
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I use a WAF that monitors suspicious query string and form POST values. Typical script-kiddie stuff like common SQL injection strings, etc. Over the last several months I've noticed a dramatic uptick ...
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Consider these two query string parameters: ?category=healthAndBeauty ?category=healthandbeauty Does Google differentiate them? What is Google's behavior if it finds both of them in my website for a ...
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I'm trying to redirect a URL ending with parameters to another URL without those parameters. https://example.com/newsroom/news-events/news.html?L=1&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=29&tx_news_pi1%...
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I have a search page for our sites that carries out search depending on the values of the following parameters in the query string; q: search string cats: comma separated string matches products ...
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I'm having trouble working out how to do a 301 redirect from: https://www.example.com/catalogue/catalogue.php?catSection=1 to https://www.example.com/hire-category/access-support-equipment/ I've tried ...
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I've written my own SiteSearch Script in PHP. The SiteSearch parses two GET parameters from the queryString: search // the search-phrase filters (optional) // indicating which parts of the site to ...
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I'm trying to create a 301-rewrite for URLs ending with ?amp=1 to nearly the same URL and query string, just stripping the value (=1). Examples: https://example.com/?amp=1 should redirect to https://...
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I have an Hebrew 1.35.1 all-core MediaWiki website; generally I have no significant performance problems reported in Google Page Speed insights with that website besides one problem which occurs in ...
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I have a /products page. In that page, users may use filters to select the products they want to see. Those filters will work using query strings like: /products?brands=X,Y&size=1,2 and so on. I ...
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I have developed a CMS that works with ID in urls. http://example.com/content/?id=10 My customers asked me to add keywords in URLs to be seo firendly. I am not sure if there is a certain definition ...
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I've noticed one bot in particular in our log files that rearranges query parameters when scanning our website. This got me thinking. Does allowing rearranging of query parameters trigger duplicate ...
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The number of unique URLs on our site exceeds the limit in our Google Analytics. We tried to exclude URL Query Parameters in the View Settings but it doesn't work, GA continue to record all of them as ...
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I want to check which URLs are indexed in google. But I want to exclude all URLs containing a question mark in the URL. For example I want a list of pages like: https://example.com https://example....
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I am trying to perform a 301 redirect in .htaccess and I need to remove the query string ?view=full. Here is what I have that is not working: RewriteRule ^/contact/?view=full$ /contact/ [R=301,L] I ...
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My blog is creating duplicate pagination, and Google understands this as duplicate content. How to 301 redirect pagination as in the following examples? https://example.com/page/33?page=34 to: https://...
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My dev is rewriting the filters plugin for my eCommerce site as our current plugin slows pageload, and part of this is to rewrite pagination and he has asked me how the query strings should be handled....
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If I post a profile of a user from my website on Facebook, Facebook always adds a query parameter. That is OK, but AdSense thinks every new query parameter is a new page and needs to crawl it ...
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I'm developing a website to display data in a database. As I add features I find that I need more and more query parameters. Are there negative consequences in terms of site visibility, SEO, etc. if ...
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If I setup a 301 redirect for the first URL path below will that also redirect all the paths below that contain a query string? For example: /6-light-oval-chandelier-espresso?pp=0&epik=...
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I have an interactive page on my website that produces millions of combinations. Users can share a link to the specific combination. Something like: example.com/tool?id1=blah&id2=blahagain This ...
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If query string contains "star symbol" or ? then I need to redirect to other page, how to check in the following condition that thequery string contains "star symbol" or ?. RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}...
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When I run a Google PageSpeed insights test I get problem reports for various long URLs with query strings for /load.php?debug=. These problem reports appear for the loading of any webpage whatsoever....
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I've transferred an old custom-made site to Mediawiki and I have many internal and external links to my old pages that I want to redirect to the appropriate wiki page. There are many links to the ...
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I have moved pages in various sub directories to the root directory and want to set up a 301 redirect for each page and keep any query string that might be present. For example: www.example.com/...
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We have a Windows 2008 R2 server running IIS 7.5. Applications running inside are occasionally making GET requests to themselves with a rather long parameter list (up to 3000 chars) and this, when ...
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Here is my robots.txt file: User-agent: * Disallow: /head.php Disallow: /head/ Disallow: /head Disallow: /header.php Disallow: /header/ Disallow: /header Disallow: /footer.php Disallow: /footer/ ...
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I want to Redirect as seen below: https://example.com/p1/p2?sort=p.model&order=ASC&page=2 to https://example.com/p3/p4?sort=p.model&order=ASC&page=2 Also, I have this code in my ....
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I want to redirect all pages of SiteA to homepage of SiteB. I used this code in SiteA's .htaccess file: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://SiteB.tld/ [...
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Various parameters slightly adapt my page's content such as ?showreviewsall or ?filterresults. All pages with parameters point to the canonical through a canonical tag. Since the beginning, Google ...
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Should I remove the entire query string from URLs in the canonical meta tag? For example this URL: https://example.com/Turkey/Istanbul/Vehicles/Car/Peugeot?b=11&d=2 This b=11 returns a list of ...
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I use Google Analytics to track the searches users do on my website. I have no query parameter for searches (nothing like q=mykeyword). Therefore I use Google Tag Manager to send a "fake" value for ...
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I am trying to use URL rewriting to rewrite search-en.php?q=abc to pages-afficher-recherche.php?lang_abbreviation=en&q=abc and I did RewriteRule ^search-([a-zA-Z]{2})\.php\?q\=([a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)$...
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I have a page that is generated dynamically based on a query parameter, which I wish to "mask" as a normal "pretty" permalink. Right now I'm using: https://example.com/dynamic-page/?parameter=xxx ...
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I've implemented my website to be like domain/objects?id=xxx like domain/objects?id=bikeId What I am worrying is the way that search engines will react to it. I've already implemented the meta tags ...
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Matrix URL is a way to pass data in URL to the program, it's like a query string, but a bit nicer. Matrix URL notation is an idea first introduced in a 1996 proposal by the founder of the web, Tim ...
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I am collecting a large number of URLs. I am not responsible for the websites in question, and I want to remove tracking parameters that do not affect the content of the website. With the tracking ...
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We are planning to make AMP pages for our dynamic site. My concern, Is it ok to use QueryString to pass the values or shall we keep URL clean without any parameters. For example: example.com/amp/...
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This post seems to have my answer: How can I redirect old WordPress URL (with a query string) to new URL using .htaccess? However, this does not seem to play nicely with WordPress' previous rewrite ...
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I have a bunch of line items in my report. For example: page/1 page/2 page/1/session/ABCDEFGHIJ page/2/session/MNBVCFRTY I've read articles on how to ignore querystring parameters but how would I ...
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I'm using query strings to burst out of cache, e.g.: mysite.css?201708311009 where the date is that of the last modification date of the file. Running a speed test on PingDom gets me this result: ...
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I tried: Create Variable: Variable type: URL Component type: Query Query Key: "ignoreme", URL Source: Page URL/Default Create Trigger: Trigger type: Page view This trigger fires on: Some page views ...
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When I search Google, I sometimes see URLs in the result list with query strings that look like they contain SEO related data. For example, when I search Google for "nike", the results included these ...
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I have a WordPress site is running on my domain. There are some pages that are indexed and cached by Google with query string like this: example.com/category/xxx/?post_type=product. I want Google to ...
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One of our sites is seeing ~100 sessions a day landing on the home page with a query string like the following appended: ?p=1471086892&subid=526&uid=48752857D549575A Each one has the same ...
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