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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Does your website use dynamic URLs?

If your website URL contains a "?", it is possible that your website uses dynamically generated pages. Generally search engines find these kind of sites and pages difficult to index.

However, Google seems to have recently changed its policy. Its official advice now says:

"[Google now indexes] URLs that contain that parameter. So if your site uses a dynamic structure that generates it, don't worry about rewriting it -- we'll accept it just fine as is.
Keep in mind, however, that dynamic URLs with a large number of parameters may be problematic for search engine crawlers in general, 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 if you have dynamic URLs containing only 1 or 2 parameters, Google should now begin indexing your site. If you have more than 2 parameters, you may still have problems, and you will need to look at rewriting them. If that's the case, contact SearchPath, and we will gladly help.

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