Question2Answer Q&A - Recent questions tagged query-string

What leads to URLs with '?' and how do they affect SEO?

Sun, 11 Aug 2019 21:14:01 +0000

What leads to URLs/query strings such as the following being generated?

- https://example.com/register?to=135/test-question-1

- https://example.com/login?to=162/test-question-2

- https://example.com/72/test-question-3?show=111

If '/register', '/login' are disallowed in robots.txt, how will that affect such URLs during SEO?

How much Question title length in URLs will be best for SEO ?

Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:29:29 +0000

My QA title URL length is 60.

Is it ok or not ? Suggestion, please...

Support query strings for user profile redirects

Sun, 23 Jun 2019 19:39:31 +0000

I think user profile redirect might be improved a bit. Now I'm facing the following problem:

In the latest version of Q2A, when I go to the URL
https://mysite/user
it should redirect to
https://mysite/user/my-username

Supposing I've installed the q2a-privileges plugin on my Q2A installation, the privileges tab will be available via http://mysite/user/my-username?tab=privileges. If I access the URL
https://mysite/user?tab=privileges

it should go to

https://mysite/user/my-username?tab=privileges

and so on for every URL query string.

I know that by accessing https://mysite/user, I get automatically redirected https://mysite/user/my-username. However, if I insert a URL query string, it will be lost during redirect.

So the questions are:

May query strings be kept when handling such redirects?
If it is not possible, does exist there an alternative to achieve such redirect, while keeping query strings (using only HTML)?

show query strings might not be best for SEO?

Wed, 11 Jul 2018 21:44:15 +0000

Hi,

I noticed there is a "show" query string for each answer in a question, that basically links to the same place.

https://domain.com/18/url-title-here?show=19#a19

So if a question has 20 answers, isn't that 20 different urls that point to the same page? From what I know about SEO, that would be duplicate content, and penalized with google.

Looks like the anchor is already there, #a19 - so why do we need it in the query string as well?

I read up a bit on it

https://northcutt.com/seo/seo-auditing/query-string-seo/

Query strings create duplicate content when the addition of a query string to a URL makes no change or no significant change to the content of the page. A re-sorted or filtered version of a page is hardly different from the original, and a version of a page with URL tags for tracking is identical to the original. Duplicates like these aren't likely to pick up an all-out penalty, but they could hurt your site's quality score which will diminish ranking potential.

Thanks

how to remove query strings from static resources?

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:03:15 +0000

hi to all

if you check your site on services such as gtmetrix.com , you'll see :

Remove query strings from static resources

but how can we do it?

I've tried lots of methods but ....

thanks