Not to be antagonistic or anything, and I didn't attend the SEO meeting (although I would have loved to, quite honestly...), but....
I have created and run two completely non-business-like websites for completely selfish purposes. Both sites contain a lot of dynamic content, and they have horribly ugly URLs. Both sites have successfully been spidered by google as well as other big-name search engines (although I only really care about google). This being said, both sites have URLs which can contain more than just one or two $_GET variables. I completely understand and agree with the "human" portion of this thread - sites with ugly URLs being less appealing to humans - but, in my personal experience, google couldn't care less how many variables are in the query portion of the URL. Am I missing something? Does anyone else have any solid evidence that this is not the case? For those who want to verify, the two sites are www.ldscompanion.org and www.ilovemyjournal.com . --Jason On 8/29/07, justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/29/07, Scott Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/29/07, justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > yeah they did. unhtmlentified ampersands. > > > > > > > > > > So, for those of us who need it spelled out, there is no restriction on > the > > number of GET variables. The XHTML problem that he was having is, more > than > > likely, the unhtmlentified ampersands. OK. Got it. > > > > right. sorry. > > since a single GET variable is encoded in the query "?var1=foo", and > two would be written "?var1=foo&var2=bar", he would only see > validation issues (i.e. an unhtmlentified '&') when he uses two GET > variables. > > lonnie's right though. GET variables are generally bad for both humans > and search engines, which basically covers the target audience for > most websites. > > justin > -- > http://justinhileman.com > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
