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Google Crawls Raw and Encoded Bracket URLs as Distinct URLs, Mueller Says

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Google's John Mueller clarified that raw brackets and percent-encoded brackets are treated as separate URLs, advising consistency across links, canonicals, and sitemaps.

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John Mueller confirmed that Google crawls raw and percent-encoded bracket characters as distinct URLs, recommending that SEOs use a single consistent form across internal links, canonical tags, and XML sitemaps to avoid unnecessary crawl overhead and consolidate signal.

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