Google and Dynamic Urls.
Seroundtable.com pointed out an interesting find that Google has removed a line that said don’t use “&id=” as a parameter. That’s interesting in itself:
Dynamic URLs? Google Is Officially ‘OK’ With Them
But I also wanted to point out a link in the Google Webmaster blog:
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Update to our webmaster guidelines
That says:
so rewriting dynamic URLs into user-friendly versions is always a good practice when that option is available to you. If you can, keeping the number of URL parameters to one or two may make it more likely that search engines will crawl your dynamic urls.
So, keep working on your mod rewrites folks.
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April 12th, 2007 at 10:45 am
We have dynamic URLs like:
http://www.cap.org/apps/cap.portal?_nfpb=true&cntvwrPtlt_actionOverride=%2Fportlets%2FcontentViewer%2Fshow&_windowLabel=cntvwrPtlt&cntvwrPtlt%7BactionForm.contentReference%7D=committees%2Feducation_description.html&_state=maximized&_pageLabel=cntvwr
which are not being indexed by Google. Do you have Google webmaster contact email/phone to figure out exactly what makes them not index this URL?
My guess: It has so many parameters. But, want to get in touch with Google and try resolving this?
Please let me know which user forum is most usefu for these type of issues?
Regards’
Rambabu
April 12th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Hi Rambabu,
I don’t think you will have much luck contacting Google on this. You are correct that there are too many parameters. You are going to see much better results with either less parameters or static urls. You might also try creating a Google Sitemap at Google Webmaster Central. That could help you. Webmasterworld is a great place for talking about these issues online.
Thanks for writing.
Sage