: Can I use Google Search Console URL removal to remove tracking parameters after placing a canonical tag? A lucrative page was ranking #3 in Google SERP's and 4 months ago the company used gclid
A lucrative page was ranking #3 in Google SERP's and 4 months ago the company used gclid tracking parameters.
This parameter became indexed in Google and the page has dropped down to #5 which has affected revenue and traffic.
We added a canonical tag and we updated the URL Parameter tool in Search Console but the gclid parameter is still indexed. We did not block it in the robots.txt file.
If we were to use the URL removal tool, is this high risk? Would it be likely that the clean URL will not replace the gclid URL and no result will return for this key term?
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Try fetching and submitting the page in Google Search Console. It's likely that the page simply hasn't been re-crawled since you added the canonical, and hence has not taken effect.
Also bear in mind that the canonical is advisory, not a directive, so Google are at liberty to ignore it. As an additional step, add the gclid parameter to the parameter filter in Search Console (set to "doesn't affect page content").
As an aside, remember that blocking in robots.txt will prevent crawling, but won't prevent the disallowed URLs from being indexed or cause them to be removed from the index.
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