Google updates Search documentation with standardized URL parameter guidelines, recommending "=" and "&" for optimal website crawling. Google recommends using "=" and "&" for URL parameters.

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 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 ...

In 2009, Google launched the parameter handling feature of Google webmaster tools, which enabled site owners to specify the parameters on their site that were optional vs. required. A year later, they ...

Google has announced this morning that on April 26, 2022 it will be killing off the URL parameter tool under the legacy Google Search Console. This is a bit of a surprise being that Google did say it ...

A new feature has appeared in the Site Configuration Settings Sections of Google Webmaster Tools. The setting, called Parameter Handling, enables site owners to specify up to 15 parameters that Google ...