[thelist] Gray Hairs - Google Mini

Ian Anderson ian at zstudio.co.uk
Thu Feb 16 06:35:44 CST 2006


kasimir-k wrote:

> "Don't use "&id=" as a parameter in your URLs, as we don't include these 
> pages in our index."
> 
> .k

But that's the weird thing - they do include pages like that in their index

For one of my clients, (who come up #1 for searches on their company 
name, which is nice though unexpected because they have bugger-all links 
to them) Google has 174 pages from their data driven site in the index, 
all but a handful in the form:

www.client.com/display.asp?c=217

This is a fair chunk of the site, though to be fair there are pages they 
haven't indexed - 174 out of 227 total are in Google's index. There is a 
  full site map two links down from the home page, which may have 
helped, but all the pages are accessible via sensibly named links in the 
nav hierarchy anyway.

Also, this is Google's #1 result for a search on "a cavern of black ice"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446608173/102-6144283-8210524?v=glance&n=283155

So are they specifially ignoring "id=" but other url parameters are OK? 
Otherwise experience contradicts their information.

I can quite understand that if you have a lot of "dark web" [1] content 
(well, like Wikipedia itself) that requires users to type search terms 
to find, that's a definite case for Google Sitemaps.

I think I will do a google site map on this client's site as an 
experiment to see if I can get the other 50 pages or so into the index.

Cheers

Ian

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web


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