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Seeking Help Will Google Ever Index search?q=

Honeybadger

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Lost with this question
if you search Google for 'nasa toys'
you might get shopnasa.com/collections/toys
its a category page
then if your on NASA website
you might search 'toys'
& get shopnasa.com/search?q=toys
question is could Google ever index
--> the internal search result?
meaning is it technically possible?
@Graybeard
asking cos I create affiliate links
they go to internal search result pages
worried Google may perhaps index the search result page
then I get a lower ranking
same question applies to amazon.com?
 
Years ago Google used to index links wIth the /?['QUERY_STRING'] intact.

This was before the search engines became affiliate antagonistic.

As far as internal search goes: server rewrite the query to //example.com/search/topic from //example.com/?search=topic
Follow the Gooblebot specifications :p
 
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asking cos I create affiliate links
they go to internal search result pages
worried Google may perhaps index the search result page
then I get a lower ranking
same question applies to amazon.com?
I have no idea. Would it be better to get a direct search referral, as opposed to;
only geting 1 out of 30 on your website?

We used to years ago get our affiliate links indexed in search and made a lot of income from it. That was in the days when it was easier to game Yahoo! and Google 15 years ago Yahoo! was a leading SE :) and it was a lot more stable that upstart Google.
 
A web server rewrite
Apache and Nginx are different (ISS others)

this one is for Apache
in .htaccess unless you can edit the server config file

Nginx:
Code:
#rewrite ^/ttm/a(=[0-9]*-[0-9]*)?$   https://12345.example.com/7-health-benefits-of-xxxx-oil/?a$1 break;

This may not work with WordPress because of the rewrites used already by default
 
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How this ***could*** work.

Note that I use the word "could" --this is unproven and only theoretical:

  1. Extract the search= queries from server logs or GA URLs
  2. Make a page popular-customer-searches.php
  3. Create a rewrite for the links extracted (in schema) or static as a test to see if this will even work
  4. Place a link to that page in the footer so Googlebot will follow it
Googlebot may take the bait or maybe it wont. Googlebot does not execute site searches --it is not AI just a website scrapping ML bot running in paranoid mode.
 
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