Re: [cms-list] Google Indexing (was Re: documentation for every major CM vendor)

[Nik Martin]

Does the CMS-List List server sometimes get in a loop?

I have received this message at least 10 times today.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward Tsai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Matthew Turvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Nik Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 10 January, 2003 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [cms-list] Google Indexing (was Re: documentation for every major CM 
vendor)


> I've come across this before whil going to a search engine optimization
> conference.
> 
> There are tools out there that deal with hiding the "?" string in cgi-bin
> and asp queries, both for unix and windows...
> 
> Here are two of them:
> 
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html
> 
> http://www.isapirewrite.com/
> 
> Basically, your web page code can be
> 
> http://mypage.com/products/432943/ and these above softwares will translate
> the page link in the back end into
> 
> http://mypage.com/products?432943 or something like that.
> 
> CMSes like Vignette don't have this problem, nor any other CMS that doesn't
> have "?" type queries.
> 
> -Edward
> 
> http://www.edwardtsai.com
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Turvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Nik Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 8:57 AM
> Subject: RE: [cms-list] Google Indexing (was Re: documentation for every
> major CM vendor)
> 
> 
> > Google will sometimes index pages with querystring parameters. The algo
> > Google uses to determine whether to index url's of this type is unknown,
> but
> > much speculated upon ;-)
> >
> > In my experience, Google may index mypage.cgi?t=1 if the site has a
> > reasonable PageRank (inward links) but will not follow any links with
> > querystring parameters from that dynamic page. So if mypage.cgi?a=1 links
> to
> > another page mypage.cgi?a=2, this 2nd page isn't indexed.
> >
> > WebmasterWorld Google Knowledgebase V2:
> > "Q: Does Google index dynamic content?
> >  A: It will in certain instances..."
> > http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2829.htm#item355
> >
> > Google Webmaster Guidelines:
> > "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 small. "
> > http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matt
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > > That's good information, but possibly needs more research to see
> > > if other factors (bots.txt entry maybe) determine id query string
> > > links get followed.
> >
> > > > Searching in Google, I remember seeing entries including the ?
> > > > parameter in the URL.
> >
> >
> > --
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> > more signal, less noise.
> 
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