: Proper use google webmaster tools URL Parameters There are some urls like http://domain.com/user/:username and http://domain.com/post/:id on my website, the username and id is the parameter from database.

@Shakeerah822

Your URLs in form of example.com/user/:username will already be crawled. Here :username is the parameter judged by your JS MVC framework (Angular, Vue or otherwise) in its Route configuration. The URL parameters are made of a key and a value separated by an equals sign (=) and joined by an ampersand (&).

The URL parameter section in Webmaster console lets you control how to interpret indexed pages with the above mentioned URL parameters.
Suppose you were having a product page as well with its URL being example.com/product?pid=143&pbrand=nike and another similar one as example.com/product?pid=143&pbrand=nike&sessionId=110029021. In this case, the parameter keys like pid and pbrand are supposed to be active parameters.


Active parameters can change page content


On the other hand, sessionId is more likely to be a passive parameter.


Passive URL parameters have no affect on how content appears to the user; they are often used to track visits and referrers.


More about active and passive parameters

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@Harper822

To be eligible for this feature, the URL parameters must be configured
in key/value pairs like item=swedish-fish or category=gummy-candy in
the URL
www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&category=gummy-candy.
googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/configuring-url-parameters-in-webmaster.html

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@Angela700

The URL parameter page is there for old-fashioned URLs with query strings attached.

For example: www.example.com/index.php?A=1&B=2
This page should explain more: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6080550

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