Is it true?

[mahangee]

Sorry this is short Im tired :D

But I was doing some research on the internet and I came across an interesting thought on the internet that web spiders from search engines dont like dynamic urls eg index.php?abc=123&xyz=789. As it makes the page hard to find or something or it lowers you page rank in they search engines.

Is this in anyway true, as I dont have a clue about SEO I really need help with this matter. Because if this is true I need to add another thing to my to do list for the tutorial thing. :D

Thanks in advance
mahangee :D

[688206002]

Originally posted by mahangee@Dec 1 2004, 04:28 PM
Sorry this is short Im tired :D

But I was doing some research on the internet and I came across an interesting thought on the internet that web spiders from search engines dont like dynamic urls eg index.php?abc=123&xyz=789. As it makes the page hard to find or something or it lowers you page rank in they search engines.

Is this in anyway true, as I dont have a clue about SEO I really need help with this matter. Because if this is true I need to add another thing to my to do list for the tutorial thing. :D

Thanks in advance
mahangee :D
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Yah, I've read about something like this too and it makes sense; dynamic URLs usage does lower your page ranking... :(

[Terminator]

This is not the case with established scripts like IPB, phpBB, Vbulletin etc.

You can actually see sometimes a user 'Googlebot' roaming around. And nowadays when u search for a keyword the result set will ofcourse carry atleast one text from a forum. So bots are able to crawl forums.

But its always better to use static pages. Then the question is "Why shd we return to old static pages for the sake of search engines?". Anwser is Good design and coding. Use dynamic content only where it is required. Also check the page source after the script execution. Check the resulted html code is understandable to crawlers.

Thank you.

[mahangee]

Or you can do what I plan to do, which is to fake that I have proper pages instead of actually having them. :D But thanks for your responses it has solved my problem.

Thanks
mahangee

[688206002]

Originally posted by mahangee@Dec 2 2004, 01:47 AM
Or you can do what I plan to do, which is to fake that I have proper pages instead of actually having them. :D But thanks for your responses it has solved my problem.

Thanks
mahangee
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Whhooooa... waaait, share the wealth (uh... knowledge) Mahangee!!! What do you mean by "fake" that you have proper pages? Do tell! :)

[mahangee]

SInce my explanation skills are somewhat lacking, I decided to google the technically term for it and found good tut on one of my favourite PHP sites :D

Here it is http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/23/1.php

Have fun. :D

[Tim]

Originally posted by mahangee@Dec 3 2004, 03:18 PM
SInce my explanation skills are somewhat lacking, I decided to google the technically term for it and found good tut on one of my favourite PHP sites :D

Here it is http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/23/1.php

Have fun. :D
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You can do that. Or you can do a little trick that I learned from a member on my previous host. You can view it here. (http://www.chromehost.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1008)