John Mueller of Google had an interesting reply to a question around linking to a page without a rel canonical attribute on it, and that page has URL parameters on it for necessary tracking purposes. John said “if the parameter URLs are few, we can keep up and probably map to the canonicals. If it’s a ton of parameter URLs, we could lose track.”
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