Using dynamically built links

digitman · 09-27-2004, 07:08 AM

Hi.
I heard google doesnt index links that have the ? mark character in it.What is the solution for me if I want to dynamically run my website?

imaginemn · 09-27-2004, 07:33 AM

Google does not have a problem indexing dynamic links. If it did none of the forum links would not be indexed. I have created many sites using ASP and dynamic content with pretty long paramaters and I have not run into any issues or problems being indexed. You have been told old information or read a very old article.

imaginemn

digitman · 09-27-2004, 07:39 AM

thanks for the clarification,now I wont have to create each page manually

Just wondering,is it better to use static links instead of dynamic ones with regards to the SEO?or the other way round?

marthrock · 10-05-2004, 07:38 AM

Its a lot easier to create static links for sure. But Im fairly certain that dynamic sites are much more difficult to crawl and thus if you can avoid the question marks, then thats the road to take, for ASP sites there is something called an ISAPI rewrite that converts the code into static looking code so that the site is much more crawlable...

Buskerdoo · 10-05-2004, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by imaginemn

Google does not have a problem indexing dynamic links. If it did none of the forum links would not be indexed. I have created many sites using ASP and dynamic content with pretty long paramaters and I have not run into any issues or problems being indexed. You have been told old information or read a very old article.

imaginemn

I've been looking at this for the last month and agree there is bad or old info out there (people - Date your articles). I was told to shorten the parameters, etc. But, I also see lots of dynamic pages getting indexed...like this forum.

We're in the process of testing dynamic pages vrs static pages. The testing will take awhile.

marthrock · 10-07-2004, 09:00 AM

Id be curious as to what you find out busker.....

samer · 10-07-2004, 11:46 AM

dunno about the SEO pros and cons of static links, but I know that in terms of web security, static links are more secure against those cookie stealing and sql injection type of attacks.

Uban · 10-08-2004, 01:03 AM

Well, I can attest that my site went from a PR0 to PR5 and all pages and subs are either PR4 or PR5, but my links category pages are still a PR0.

BTW, does anybody know how to write a mod rewrite for my dynamic link category pages? My category link pages are written dynamically to resource.php?dir=1 (dir2,dir3,etc). I'd like to rewrite them to directory1.html, directory2.html, etc. Any good programmers here?

Thanks.

marthrock · 10-08-2004, 09:48 AM

so you need a php rewrite? whats the webserver for php pages is it apache?

Uban · 10-08-2004, 09:51 AM

Yes I do need a rewrite and yes it is apache. I've been researching like crazy but am a little lost since I've never done this before. Do you know of a good article of an example that would work in my case?

bcombs · 10-08-2004, 12:20 PM

Google will definately index dynamically generated pages with ?'s, although you want watch the length of the URL as Google sometimes has issues indexing pages with long URL's (although Amazon seems to have worked their way around).

You might look at using stuffed URL's and put keywords in your URL's. This doesn't help as much as it used to, but I believe it still makes a small difference.

Brian

theJack · 10-08-2004, 03:06 PM

I think you want something like this:

RewriteRule ^directory([0-9]+).html$ resource.php?dir=$1

Uban · 10-11-2004, 09:56 AM

You are correct thJack. Thanks to hatchet, he supplied the same info plus pointing out that I needed to change all of my category links to point to resource(x).html. Thanks hatchet! You guys can check it out on my debt consolidation site in my sig. It's a pretty sweet link script and even better now