Srsltid parameters on SERPS. Negative or Ignore?

[metropolitanBase]

Hello, in our shopify ecommerce store with hundreds of products, our rankings are suddenly full of SRSLTID parameters. Even our homepage result has this parameters.

This came up today, should I be worried?

 

[Roger Marquez]

@metropolitanBase The srsltid= parameter is nothing new, around February 2022 last year Google started adding this parameter when a user clicks on a product within shopping listings within Google Merchant.

For more information on this topic I highly recommend reading these resources:

Google’s srsltid= parameter: What it means for SEO and attribution​

Google Search Listing srsltid URL Parameters From Merchant Center​

A new parameter ?srsltid= was notices in Google Search Results​

Cheers!

 

[SeoMeg]

Hello, in our shopify ecommerce store with hundreds of products, our rankings are suddenly full of SRSLTID parameters. Even our homepage result has this parameters.

This came up today, should I be worried?

Yes, SRSLTID parameters are likely session-related tracking parameters—check your canonical tags, block them in Google Search Console, and monitor for indexing issues.

 

[metropolitanBase]

@metropolitanBase The srsltid= parameter is nothing new, around https://searchengineland.com/auto-tagging-added-to-google-merchant-center-free-listings-379590 last year Google started adding this parameter when a user clicks on a product within shopping listings within Google Merchant.

For more information on this topic I highly recommend reading these resources:

https://searchengineland.com/google-srsltid-parameter-seo-attribution-448077​

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-srsltid-url-parameters-37875.html​

https://devakatalk.com/srsltid-in-google-serp/​

Cheers!

Thank you so much for the info. While I was researching earlier today, most sources said that it did not affect SEO negatively. I have read the blog posts that you have added and I am still not sure. What would you suggest? Just letting it be or disabling auto tagging and adding canonicals

 

[boldslice]

Hello, in our shopify ecommerce store with hundreds of products, our rankings are suddenly full of SRSLTID parameters. Even our homepage result has this parameters.

This came up today, should I be worried?

You might want to check your Google Search Console and set URL parameters properly or use canonical tags to avoid duplicate content issues.

 

[hideath]

Thank you so much for the info. While I was researching earlier today, most sources said that it did not affect SEO negatively. I have read the blog posts that you have added and I am still not sure. What would you suggest? Just letting it be or disabling auto tagging and adding canonicals

Set the canonical tags independently of your case,
It's a good way to prevent any similar confusion, whatever the parameters/urls,
Shopify has plenty of these as part of their system, which often causes the problem