RE: FN-FORUM: Mod-Rewrite

date posted 25th January 2007 22:56


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>I agree totally. However that has nothing to do with his question, which
>was about spidering content.
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The fact that Google often ignores non descriptive parameters, i.e. those
called "id" (as historically it's associated with session ids I believe),
and limits the number of requests it will do for sites that's do use a query
string.

Also, From

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

"If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?"
character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic
pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the
number of them few."

Hope that helps

D


>webmetric wrote:
>>> Mod Rewrite simply rewrites the URL - the outputted page will be exactly
>>> the same, so I very much doubt that'll do anything as far as SE spiders
>go.
>>>
>>> What makes you think they'll ignore the content?