Google Search Console to destroy the URL parameter tool on April 26th

Google has announced this morning that on April 26, 2022, it will destroy the URL parameters tool in the legacy Google Search Console. This is somewhat surprising because Google said it was planning greatly improved and that’s what some Google employees wanted to see the tool goes away.

Google wrote that “the tool for URL parameters in the Search Console will be discontinued within a month.” Google added that “current users of the tool do not require any action.”

Google said it wasn’t used much, only about 1%, Google wrote. “Over the years, Google has become much better at guessing which parameters are useful on a site and which are – simply put – useless. In fact, only about 1% of the parameter configurations currently specified in the URL parameter tool are usable for crawling. Due to the low value of the tool for Google and Search Console users, we will discontinue the URL settings tool within one month. “

Google said yes use heavily what the tool settings for the URL parameter determine. So Google said they would replace the tool to make it better.

The tool started up 2009 and here it looked then:

Some SEOs may be upset about this, while others are probably happy goes away.

So what do you do next? Use robots.txt, improve your CMS and internal links, and if you have regional languages, use hreflang.

What did Google say about its tool improvement hint? John said things are changing …

Over time, things change.

– 🦝 John (in person) @ (@JohnMu) March 28, 2022

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