Google’s biggest crawling challenges are faceted navigation, action parameters and more

Crawlers can cause your site to load slowly if you do not manage the URLs on your website properly.

Google: 75% of crawling issues come from two common URL mistakes

Gary Illyes says faceted navigation and action parameters dominate Google’s crawl waste, trapping bots in infinite URLs and ...
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Google Sunsetting URL Parameters Tool Next Month

Google plans to deprecate the URL Parameters tool next month, saying it's no longer needed because Google can deal with parameters automatically. Google is sunsetting the URL Parameters tool in Search ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search To Get Better At URL Parameter Handling?

As part of the Search Off The Record podcast from Google on crawling, which we briefly covered on Friday, Gary Illyes from Google said he is investigating ways for Google to handle URL parameters ...

Google’s Crawl Team Filed Bugs Against WordPress Plugins

Google's crawl team filed a bug against WooCommerce for add-to-cart parameters wasting crawl budget. WooCommerce fixed it. Other plugins haven't.
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Can Lose Track Of Tons Of URL Parameters; Why Canonicals Are Important

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.