: Your URLs are not hurting your SEO very much. Google is able to crawl and index URLs with query parameters just as easily as "clean" URLs without them. As far as I can tell, Google

@Heady270

Your URLs are not hurting your SEO very much. Google is able to crawl and index URLs with query parameters just as easily as "clean" URLs without them. As far as I can tell, Google doesn't use cleanliness of the URL as a ranking factor on its own.

URL parameters are slightly less friendly for users:


They make the URL longer
The introduce extra punctuation
They make the URLs hard for users to remember and type


Better usability can lead to higher rankings in Google.

There are also potential problems when using multiple parameters. You appear to be using a single parameter, so this may not apply to you. With multiple parameters order matters to Google, but not to your server. So:


/index.php?foo=bar&faa=baz
/index.php?faa=baz&foo=bar


will have the same content, but be seen as separated pages by Google. Creating friendly URLs is a good way to prevent this type of problem.

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