Seeking Help Will Google Ever Index search?q=

[Honeybadger]

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?

 

[Graybeard]

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

 

[Honeybadger]

We used to years ago get our affiliate links indexed in search and made a lot of income from it.

Please explain
are you cloaking/redirecting?
how would this be 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?

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.

 

[Honeybadger]

As far as internal search goes: server rewrite the query to //example.com/search/topic from //example.com/?search=topic

Cant find them
gotta link?

 

[Graybeard]

how would this be possible?

then 2008 => now 2022
things change over time.

 

[Graybeard]

A web server rewrite

server URL rewrite tool at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

Apache and Nginx are different (ISS others)

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

URL Rewriting Tool | Web Writer Tools

Nginx:

#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

 

[Graybeard]

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.