: Duplicate content due to URL parameters ('canonical' link type can’t be used) There are over 40k pages of duplicate content that was flagged during an audit. It seems that most are due to
There are over 40k pages of duplicate content that was flagged during an audit. It seems that most are due to the parameters in the URLs. The format is below:
example.org/site/UserLogin example.org/site/UserLogin?NEXTURL=http://www.domain.org/folder1/page1 example.org/site/UserLogin?NEXTURL=http://www.domain.org/folder2/page2 example.org/site/UserLogin?NEXTURL=http://www.domain.org/folder3/page3
Would adding the parameter in Search Console fix those issues?
rel="canonical" is not an option due to the CMS the client is using.
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If the canonical tag in the header isn't an option, you have a few alternatives to avoid the impact of duplicate content:
Specify only the main content in a sitemap without all the varying parameters, include only the canonical URL but not the non-canonical versions *.
Indicate how to handle parameters with the Parameter Handling tool to tell Google about any parameters you would like to be ignored: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/crawl-url-parameters
Would adding the parameter in (google) Search Console fix those issues?
Even if it did, it wouldn't help 100% because there are other search engines I'm sure your client would want his website indexed in other search engines such as Bing and Yandex, and you may have to use their tools as well to sort out parameters.
Because pages only highlighting user login forms offer no value to casual guests, you're best to tell search engines not to index them by adding the following between the <head> and </head> tags of your HTML:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">
If that is not possible in your setup, you can achieve the same effect via the following HTTP header tag:
X-Robots-Tag: noindex
I would canoncilise the original page without the parameters to itself, which explains to google this is the original and you can ignore the rest.
<link rel="canonical" href="http://domain.org/site/UserLogin" />
We had to do this to a client website recently, took a few days to kick in but got rid of the duplicates.
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