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URL Referrer Tracking...tips on how to do it properly....
SEM News Source: http://janeandrobot.com
Published: Dec 09, 2008 - 03:14 pm
Story Found By: yetanotherben 1160 Days ago
Category: SEM
A great post by Jane and Robot! There may be instances when you want to track the source of a request, and a common way of doing so is by using tracking parameters in URLs. Unfortunately, implementing referrer tracking in this way can result in significant issues with search engines. In particular, it can cause duplicate content issues (since the search engine bot finds multiple valid URLs that point to the same page) and ranking issues (since all the links to the page aren’t to the same URL).
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from yetanotherben 1160 Days ago #
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Jane and Robot don’t release content often, but when they do it’s always great stuff!  Certainly worth a read...

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from hugoguzman 1159 Days ago #
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Fantastic post. Some folks already know how to implement this, but I don’t believe I’ve ever seen anyone write about it so eloquently and thoroughly.Well done!

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from yetanotherben 1158 Days ago #
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Totally in agreement...there’s stacks of resources out there, but they have certainly hit the nail on the head with what and how they go about writing...you can tell they’ve put a lot of time and care in to it.

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