dynamic vs Static content

[i4v.net]

does anyone know for sure how SE's index/treat querystring urls leading to dynamic content

if i have a link on my car hire webpage of the form:

www.####.co.uk/cars.aspx?type=34 or cars.aspx?type=BMW

compared to hard coded urls and page content:

www.####.co.uk/bmw_cars.aspx
www.####.co.uk/audi_cars.aspx
www.####.co.uk/ford_cars.aspx etc

would the dynamic content get pick up in the same way?


thx

 

[robrob is verified member.]

look up 'mod rewrite' - it is your friend, basically it changes the dynamic crap urls into pretty ones to be eaten up by the bots

 

[retired_member27]

You too fast for me Rob, I was just about to mention mod_rewrite as well.

 

[ScottJ]

Along as you limit the amount of parameters (say 2-3) the site will get indexed and ranked as well as a static site but as previously mentioned mod-rewrite can make them keyword rich.

 

[aquanuke]

Dont think theres a free one like mod_rewrite, so you may have to use something like this http://www.isapirewrite.com

Personally Id just move to Linux, its cheaper

 

[retired_member2]

Personally I think it's a 50/50 situation I know when I first started in domains, I used too use templates but then I changed, to standard html.

There are a few websites that do use for example website@php37373 rather than domain_names.php that are popular for search terms.

This is because of there inbound links and also the meta tags and how long they have been established for.

The best way of knowing 100% would be too take your search term that you want so for example ford car or loan etc.

Type that into google and see what comes up, so if for example 8 out of the top 10 are ford-car.php or similar then reasonably you have your answer.

You cant 100% know really how successful a website design is going to be unless you give it time, I have done work, not seen any results, changed the design a couple of months after, started seeing some hits simply because of the previous design and wish I hadnt changed the original design.

You really need to give a website about a year before you change it, simply because you need to give it a good chance of doing something.

One website might be popular one minute, but something might happen in the way that the search engine works, and it can vanish into nothing and yet yours could be pushed into the top 10.

Main thing really is inbound links, and possibly on the domain name as well, but depends on how generous a search engine is.

If someone really knew the answer and the true answer to successful SEO work, then they would be millionaires because they could target the market in every field and clean up.

If you can then yes get rover-216si rather than index?php868337 but get some links to your website as well.

Regards

Mark

 

[BFTUK]

I had a site that used a couple or parameters whilst the bots will still crawl and index the site.

but and its a big but......

When i moved to Keyword friendly URLS my traffic jumped.

A keyword laced URL is much more preferable, as Mark says links are important but you need to look at the whole SEO picture, those friendly Urls might just give you the edge...

 

[murph]

I have heard that if there is an "id=..." in the url, googlebot deems it as a session id and won't crawl, but whether that is true or not is another question.

I always recommend using rewrite to get useful page urls

 

[tifosi]

.Net (ie .aspx) has a built in rewriter.

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/urlrewriter.asp?df=100&forumid=4228&exp=0&select=1794599

could try that...

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