SEO / GA issue we URL strings

Anonymous

#223764

Hi,
I hope you are doing well.

The client is working hard on their SEO and we are having an issue with the way the URL strings report/work in Google and for SEO purposes.

Basically is there a way to hide the URL string when using the filter.

Examples of what we need can be seen as follows:

Current:
https://thelearningadventure.com/trips/china/?_sft_portfolio_country=china

Ideally would be:
https://thelearningadventure.com/trips/china/
– whilst still defaulting to “China” selected in first field so only china results are shown.

Then, as you click through to the trips, the string remains:
https://thelearningadventure.com/trip/technology-school-trip-china-beijing-shanghai-guiyang/?_sft_portfolio_country=china

But we need this to just be the base URL:
https://thelearningadventure.com/trip/technology-school-trip-china-beijing-shanghai-guiyang/

Happy to discuss further, thanks.

Marcel

Trevor

#223769

I understand what you are asking, but this will not be possible until V3. You are able to ask Google not to index pages with query strings using a NOROBOTS meta tag, such as discussed in this thread:

https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/sf-pro-pagination-and-indexing-issues/

Anonymous

#223775

Thanks, but if we NO ROBOT the URL with strings, won’t this by default also NO ROBOT the actual page with content as well?

When do you think V3 is coming out?

Thanks again,

Marcel

Trevor

#223781

It will only NOROBOT the page if it has query strings. If it has no query strings, it will not add this to the page.

On V3 I have not ETA, sorry. We are hard at work on it, and are a long way done.

Anonymous

#223785

Ok, great, thanks for your help.

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