[null,null,[],[[["\u003cp\u003eThe URL Parameters tool in Google Search Console is being deprecated in one month due to low usage and Google's improved ability to handle URL parameters.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eNo action is required from current users as Google's crawlers will automatically learn how to deal with URL parameters on websites.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eFor those needing more control, options like robots.txt rules and hreflang can be used to manage parameters and language variations.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],["The URL Parameters tool in Google Search Console is being deprecated in one month due to its low value and Google's improved ability to handle URL parameters automatically. Current users need not take any action. Google's crawlers will automatically determine how to deal with parameters. For more control, users can utilize `robots.txt` rules or `hreflang` to manage content variations. The tool's deprecation impacts only 1% of current configurations.\n"],null,["# Spring cleaning: the URL Parameters tool\n\nMonday, March 28, 2022\n\n\n**In short:** We're deprecating the URL Parameters tool in Search Console in 1 month. There's\nno action required from the current users of the tool.\nThe URL Parameters tool in 2009\n\n\nWhen the URL Parameters tool launched in\n[2009](/search/blog/2009/10/new-parameter-handling-tool-helps-with) in Search Console's\npredecessor, Webmaster Tools, the internet was a much wilder place than it is today.\n`SessionID` parameters were very common, CMSes had trouble organizing parameters, and\nbrowsers often broke links. With the URL Parameters tool, site owners had granular control over\nhow Google crawled their site by specifying how certain parameters affect the content on their\nsite.\n\n\nOver the years, Google became much better at guessing which parameters are useful on a site and\nwhich are ---plainly put--- useless. In fact, only about 1% of the parameter\nconfigurations currently specified in the URL Parameters tool are useful for crawling. Due to the\nlow value of the tool both for Google and Search Console users, we're deprecating the URL\nParameters tool in 1 month.\n\n\nGoing forward you don't need to do anything to specify the function of URL parameters on your\nsite, Google's crawlers will learn how to deal with URL parameters automatically.\n\n\nIf you need more control, you can use\n[robots.txt rules](/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro) (for example, you can specify\nparameter orders in an `allow` rule) or use\n[`hreflang`](/search/docs/specialty/international/localized-versions) to specify\nlanguage variations of content.\n\n\nIf you have questions or comments, you can catch us on\n[Twitter](https://twitter.com/googlesearchc).\n\n\nPosted by [Gary Illyes](https://garyillyes.com/+), Search Team"]]
