Justin, I used to be in your camp but I've reversed course. I now believe that having a "semantic" url actually does matter - as opposed to simply url params. I'm basing this on working with a couple of brialliant SEO guys on a very high traffic ecommerce site where they have captured and maintained their ranking (not just through url rewriting of course :)
-Mark Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG (402) 408-3733 ext 105 Skype: markakruger www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -----Original Message----- From: Justin Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 8:24 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Beta Tester Wanted for new CF (MVC) Framework > It's not an issue in that Google can't crawl you. It's > an issue in that Google will rank this: > mysite.com/Cars/BMW/X3 > Higher than this: > mysite.com?cat=cars&maker=bmw&style=x3 I realize that is a common belief, but I have never seen any compelling evidence to back up the claim. If there's a statement from someone at Google (Matt Cutts most likely) which says that I'm certainly open to be more accepting and less skeptical when I hear that argument brought up. I agree that the former is more readable to a user (who reads URLs anyway?) but I've yet to see actual evidence that it impacts rankings. If there's an article I missed I'm certainly open to references. -Justin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340505 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
