[OT] "ID" in the URL scares Googlebot?

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = I was reading up a little last night about dynamic URLs and how google will index them for the most part, but then I ran into some opinions that variables in the url that contain 'ID' scare googlebot because it thinks that they might be session variables that change repeatedly, such as if I had ?variable_ID=[cart], for instance... they are saying that ?variable_CODE=[cart], or ?variable=[cart] is better... Any truth to this in anyone's opinion? I could dig up the forums from last night if need be... -Dan ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com http://www.SearchBoise.com (208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: [OT] "ID" in the URL scares Googlebot? ( Frank Nordberg 2003)
  2. [OT] "ID" in the URL scares Googlebot? ( "Dan Strong" 2003)
I was reading up a little last night about dynamic URLs and how google will index them for the most part, but then I ran into some opinions that variables in the url that contain 'ID' scare googlebot because it thinks that they might be session variables that change repeatedly, such as if I had ?variable_ID=[cart], for instance... they are saying that ?variable_CODE=[cart], or ?variable=[cart] is better... Any truth to this in anyone's opinion? I could dig up the forums from last night if need be... -Dan ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com http://www.SearchBoise.com (208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ "Dan Strong"

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