Comments on: Making a Case for the Ignore Parameter http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/making-a-case-for-the-ignore-parameter/ Michael Gray rants on SEO the internet and media Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:58:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Lea http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/making-a-case-for-the-ignore-parameter/comment-page-1/#comment-8364 Lea Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:50:28 +0000 http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/making-a-case-for-the-ignore-parameter/#comment-8364 Hmm, you're right. OK, htaccess allows for it. Put <a href="example.com/foo/?ignoreparameter=1" rel="nofollow">link</a> on your page and RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^ignoreparameter=1 RewriteRule ^ foo/ http://example.com/foo/? [R=301,L] in your htaccess and you get a 301 that *should* have the bots moving on to the real page address for PR, but your logs will include the 301 for Real Clicks. Of course, you'll need custom software to analyse it (technical point: the final ? just before the R=301 is *important*!! Don't remove it!!) Hmm, you’re right.
OK, htaccess allows for it.
Put link
on your page
and
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^ignoreparameter=1
RewriteRule ^ foo/ http://example.com/foo/? [R=301,L]
in your htaccess and you get a 301 that *should* have the bots moving on to the real page address for PR, but your logs will include the 301 for Real Clicks.
Of course, you’ll need custom software to analyse it
(technical point: the final ? just before the R=301 is *important*!! Don’t remove it!!)

]]> By: Eric Giguere http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/making-a-case-for-the-ignore-parameter/comment-page-1/#comment-8187 Eric Giguere Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:40:18 +0000 http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/making-a-case-for-the-ignore-parameter/#comment-8187 Yeah, serves me right for answering questions at 5 in the morning. Forgot about the indexing part, not good at all.... Yeah, serves me right for answering questions at 5 in the morning. Forgot about the indexing part, not good at all….

]]> By: Gman http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/making-a-case-for-the-ignore-parameter/comment-page-1/#comment-8167 Gman Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:07:00 +0000 http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/making-a-case-for-the-ignore-parameter/#comment-8167 "This can already be done - look at Google Analytics, it has an overlay map which shows what links were clicked on how often. I haven’t checked their js, but I expect they are pulling the mopuse coords of each click and defining where on the page it occurred." Google Analytics doesn't appear to separate clicks when links are duplicated though. For example, when you've got navlinks on top and the same navlinks on the side, Google Analytics will display the same click stats for both links...at least that's how the reports show up for my site. “This can already be done – look at Google Analytics, it has an overlay map which shows what links were clicked on how often.
I haven’t checked their js, but I expect they are pulling the mopuse coords of each click and defining where on the page it occurred.”

Google Analytics doesn’t appear to separate clicks when links are duplicated though. For example, when you’ve got navlinks on top and the same navlinks on the side, Google Analytics will display the same click stats for both links…at least that’s how the reports show up for my site.

]]> By: Lea http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/making-a-case-for-the-ignore-parameter/comment-page-1/#comment-8165 Lea Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:10:00 +0000 http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/making-a-case-for-the-ignore-parameter/#comment-8165 I'm not sure that the 'id' parameter is the best way to do it - you're likely to get the target page excluded instead :( This can already be done - look at Google Analytics, it has an overlay map which shows what links were clicked on how often. I haven't checked their js, but I expect they are pulling the mopuse coords of each click and defining where on the page it occurred. I’m not sure that the ‘id’ parameter is the best way to do it – you’re likely to get the target page excluded instead :(

This can already be done – look at Google Analytics, it has an overlay map which shows what links were clicked on how often.
I haven’t checked their js, but I expect they are pulling the mopuse coords of each click and defining where on the page it occurred.

]]> By: Eric Giguere http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/making-a-case-for-the-ignore-parameter/comment-page-1/#comment-8161 Eric Giguere Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:24:22 +0000 http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/making-a-case-for-the-ignore-parameter/#comment-8161 Actually, with Google you can already do this by using a query parameter with name "id". So if you don't need "id" for something else, just use it. See <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769" rel="nofollow">Google's webmaster guidelines</a>, it's there at the bottom of the technical guidelines section. Actually, with Google you can already do this by using a query parameter with name “id”. So if you don’t need “id” for something else, just use it. See Google’s webmaster guidelines, it’s there at the bottom of the technical guidelines section.

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