URL parameters help Google to crawl your iste more efficiently and give priority to your more useful content by controlling the parameters that effect the site content. In blogging platforms like Wordpress and Blogspot, there are several parameters, that effect the page content. Famous among them are replytocom, Show comment, comment Page, m and utm parameters. Here are the guidelines to get through all this headache and to make it simoe to optimize URLs for Blogger blogs and enhance your SEO.

Important Parameters

To check the parameters Google has found out on your blog, simply log into your Webmasters Account and then click Configurations and then URL parameters. You will see a list of around 7-8 parameters for which you need to specify their behavior. The number of these parameters could be greater if you are using Google Custom Search.

Some of the Parameters are

1. showComment
2. m
3. commentPage
4. utm_source
5. utm_medium
6. utm_campaign
7. max-results
8. updated-max
9. share

Parameters follow a URL with a question mark.

Optimization settings

You will find Edit and Reset link to the right of each parameter. Make the setting for each parameter one by one as shown.

Points to Remember

1. This method will only make crawling easy for Googlebot and will not make any of your pages disappearing.

2. You need to set Crawl and Effect entries only.

3. To see the structure of the URL you can click "show example URLs" in the popup window to precheck how the URLs look like.

4. Effect Paginates here is used for CommentPage and m because both are simple identifiers to show page number for comments greater than 200 in Blogger.

5. Effect Sorts is chosen for max-results and updated-max because both sorts the page content in order of time and date.

Reductoin of crawl errors

Yes, it does reduce the crawl errors. Most of the errors are caused by duplicate URLs or due to absence of canonical link attributes. This methods makes it extremely easy to control the URL structure of your blog within your webmasters account.

2.On the home page, click on the site for which you want to see the indext report.
3.Then click on the health option on the left side of your dashboard, and select Index Status from the avaiable option.
4.Then, you will notice two tabs,Basic and Advaced.

Basic Tab :- The basic tab shows a graph which tells you the number of pages of your site have been indexed over time. It displays up to one year of stats (data). Then legend will let you know number of pages that are currently being indexed. Google says that this information is accurate doesnt include non-canonical URLs so, if there are more than one URLs pointing to the same content or if there is any duplicate content present, then it will just be counted as one page (instead of multiple pages.)

Google also admitts that this data lags by around one week. Is the graph is steadily growing up there is nothing to worry about cause it means that your new content is being recognized by google and if the graph remains constant or falls down inspite of yout addition of new content, then you might want to look into the advaced tab.

Advanced Tab:- This tab gives more insights into how Google has been treating your website. In addition to the graph, you can see the 1. Ever crawled 2. Not Selected 3. Blocked by Robot graphs

Usefulness of this Data :-

Thinking about the usefulness of this data, right? Here I go. This data could be useful for debugging purposes to see whats wrong with your content (website) and why you are not getting any traffic and views. An increase in the number of Total Indexed and Ever Craled pages means that your site is on the right track and Google can access your content.

On the other hand, if theres a sudden drop, it means that Google having trouble reaching your website. It could be because your webserver is down or you might have added a sitewide no index tag instead of adding it one just one page. A large no. of not indexed means there are problems with canonicalization or theres a lot of duplicate content on your site. This means that you must make efforts to reduce the duplicate content on your site and even non-canonical URLs.