Yandex Update Critical Issues Support Page To Include GET Parameters

Documentation: https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/diagnosis/critical.html?lang=ru

Yandex have supported their Critical Issues documentation (nested in Site Diagnostics) to include fresh guidance around duplicate pages with GET parameters:

Duplicate pages are considered to be pages with the same content, but available at different addresses. Links with GET parameters can also be considered duplicates, since the Yandex robot considers them to be different pages. Such pages are combined into a group of duplicates.

Yandex advises using the robots.txt file to resolve any duplication flags stemming from this issue.

 

Dan Taylor
Dan Taylor is an experienced SEO consultant and has worked with brands and companies on optimizing for Russia (and Yandex) for a number of years. Winner of the inaugural 2018 TechSEO Boost competition, webmaster at HreflangChecker.com and Sloth.Cloud, and founder of RussianSearchNews.com.