When the Farcry website (http://farcry.daemon.com.au) started using my
Friendly URL Servlet they noticed a huge increase in both search bot
spidering and a much improved ranking in google for several search terms.
The search engines all seem to be quite happy to put dynamic content in
their indexes, but pages with a URL parameter seem to get a lower ranking
than equivalent ones without.
All of this is subjective/anecdotal and I've never seen any absolute metrics
or proof of how significant the effect is, other than people telling me that
the FU Servlet has had a big impact on their search engine placement.
Whether that's wishful thinking on their part, or a result of a combination
of factors including SES URLs I don't know.
Spike
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Dinowitz
>Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 9:44 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Re: search engine safe URLs
>
>I have. When I redid the HoF site in SES urls, the amount of search
>agents hitting the site went waaaay up and the amount of indexed pages
>did as well.
>My SES url article should be posted to the front of HoF and FA
>by morning.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: simeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:36:24 -0700
>Subject: Re: search engine safe URLs
>To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>It doesnt take much searching on google or yahoo to see that dynamic
>
>pages DO get indexed.
>
>
>
>I read somewhere recently that its not an issue of dynamic pages being
>
>indexed, however, the issue is that the search engines will not spider
>
>pages from a dynamic url.
>
>
>
>This is not something that i have been able to prove incorrect. Has
>
>anyone seen any evidence that supports or contradicts this
>theory? I am
>
>just curious what other developers have seen.
>
>
>
>sim
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>
>
>On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 21:35, Sean Corfield wrote:
>
>> > http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm?page=productSummary&catID=12
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>> >
>
>> > however, most search engines will only index the index.cfm
>page sine
>
>> the
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>> > remainder of the url is "dynamic".
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>>
>
>> This seems to be a commonly voiced fear but searching on various
>
>> search engines simply doesn't seem to back this up and I suspect that
>
>> modern search engines *do* use the query string parameters just
>
>> fine...
>
>>
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