Given this clip from the article, I would guess it has no effect: "A better example would be www.Moono.com - a celebrity gossip and entertainment news site, which belongs to a good friend of mine. It had started out as purely dynamically generated website (ColdFusion & MySQL), that he later on converted in such a way that it appears to be static HTML while still being very much dynamic. While it was OK to do that �just to be on the safe side,� it hasn�t produced much in terms of benefits. Google had close to 40,000 his pages indexed before, and it is the same now.
On the other hand Moono�s sister site www.Rev108.com, that has the same theme and much of the same content only smaller, is one hundred percent dynamic. Google indexed about 17,000 of its pages, which is pretty much all of it. The same holds true for Yahoo as well." It's not a direct answer to the question, obviously, but it would seem to support the idea that at least for Google and Yahoo, the engine doesn't make any distinction between static and dynamic pages. For url's that need to be used in print media, you're right, I would avoid a url with a GUID in it ... though that's reasonably easy to accomplish on a page-by-page basis with something like the mechanic behind TinyURL.com, macromedia.com/go/ or a simple stub template that includes or redirects to the final url. > Yeah, I think search engines are happier about > querystrings now, but: > We have customers who put their URLs in printed marketing > materials, so > there is no way we are going to have users typing in: > /index.cfm?page=79797C25-1143-5A57-54B333CF7325EA9C > We need to have direct access like mysite.com/feature, of > course there are > other ways of acheiving this, but I think having human > friendly URLs is a > good thing. > Im not sure, but does having a more relevant URL help your > rankings as well? > -----Original Message----- > From: Al Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 April 2005 14:08 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Are "search engine safe" URLs really necessary? > For those of you taking a lot of time getting your dynamic > site URLs > to look like static ones, this article may be of interest > to you: > http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/4/emw232456.htm > (I am in no way affiliated with the site. It just happened > to come up > in a Google Alert and covers a topic I've seen pass > through the list > more than once.) > -- > <a > href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=58 > 370&t=1">Get > Firefox!</a> > http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=58370&am > p;t=1 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:204257 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
