{"id":2777,"date":"2021-05-26T12:12:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/google-can-lose-track-of-tons-of-url-parameters-why-canonicals-are-important\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T12:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:12:59","slug":"google-can-lose-track-of-tons-of-url-parameters-why-canonicals-are-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/google-can-lose-track-of-tons-of-url-parameters-why-canonicals-are-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Can Lose Track Of Tons Of URL Parameters; Why Canonicals Are Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;if the parameter URLs are few, we can keep up and probably map to the canonicals. 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