[thelist] SEO and Dynamic URIs

Paul Waring paul at xk7.net
Mon Aug 29 05:25:13 CDT 2005


On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:08:31PM +0300, Hershel Robinson wrote:
> Are such URIs less appealing to search engines than if they were of the 
> form:
> 
> http://www.mishpachaw.com/eng-index/8/1/
> 
> or some such? The only real difference in the URI is the lack of the ?.

I've seen Google happily crawl and index phpBB forums which have urls
like:

http://www.example.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2858&start=15

so I don't think it makes much of a difference any more. If you hang
around SEO forums you'll probably be told differently but I don't think
it is as big as issue as people make out. Having said that, the latter
style of URLs are much easier for people to read as well, and since it's
fairly trivial in most cases to add the relevant lines to a .htaccess
file I don't see any reason for not using them.

If you're bothered about SEO though, I'd be more worried about the
content of your pages than spending time thinking about pretty URLs.

Paul

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