We are trying to run a vwo test for our pdp page.I created a test in VWO where  URL www.example.com/products/productid will get redirected to www.example.com/productid?isVWOVersion=true for 50% users.Based on the request param isVWOVersion I will decide whether new PDP content needs to be displayed vs old one.Below is the jsp structure -> index.jsp -> isVWOVersion = true then include pdpNew.jsp else include pdpOld.jsp Will my SEO ranking get affected? Does Google sees two versions of PDP as duplicate content? Do I need to add noindex meta tag<meta name=robots content=noindex,nofollow/> to pdpNew.jsp to avoid SEO ranking issues due to duplicate content?
Does SEO ranking gets affected if I run a split URL test on our product detail page (PDP) using Visual Web Optimizer (VWO)
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We've run split-URL tests like this ourselves, and haven't seen any fall in SERPs. Some customers had lingering doubts, so here's what we did after scouring the web:Choose two pages; the control and the variation Add canonical tag to both pages... pointing to the control page Run split test for 17 daysResult: The control page did not fall out of Google rankings.(I work for VWO.)