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Bondat
Oct 25th 2006, 6:29 pm
New development on Google algorithm
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As the web continues to change and evolve, our algorithms change right along with it. Recently, as a result of one of those algorithmic changes, we've modified our webmaster guidelines. Previously, these stated:


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

However, we've recently removed that technical guideline, and now index URLs that contain that parameter. So if your site uses a dynamic structure that generates it, don't worry about rewriting it -- we'll accept it just fine as is. Keep in mind, however, that dynamic URLs with a large number of parameters may be problematic for search engine crawlers in general, so rewriting dynamic URLs into user-friendly versions is always a good practice when that option is available to you. If you can, keeping the number of URL parameters to one or two may make it more likely that search engines will crawl your dynamic urls.

Source:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/

kevinn
Oct 25th 2006, 7:30 pm
thats great to know..thanks!

smitts
Oct 25th 2006, 7:33 pm
wow, this might be tough on vbseo and the like..

nddb
Oct 25th 2006, 7:37 pm
New development on Google algorithm
Blogspot is currently down now so I'll just paste the content here.



Source:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/

As far as I can tell, they've been indexing &id= for years. (And as for long URLs, I dunno... I see some pretty damn long ones. I think if your PR is high enough, they'll take any URL.)

MrX
Oct 25th 2006, 7:41 pm
wow, this might be tough on vbseo and the like..

Doubt it. vbSEO does a lot more than remove the id parameter from URLs.

Crazy_Rob
Oct 26th 2006, 6:22 am
Definitely nothing new.

Maybe they're just better at it now.

Mong
Oct 26th 2006, 7:36 am
Maybe they're just better at it now.

Its new :rolleyes:

Crazy_Rob
Oct 26th 2006, 7:36 am
No, it's not. :rolleyes:

trichnosis
Oct 26th 2006, 9:28 am
google is being better than the yesterday

softgroups
Oct 28th 2006, 1:43 pm
yac-yac old news...

imnajam
Oct 29th 2006, 1:35 am
It's not new, I have read it along time ago on google web master technical guideline.

Klian
Oct 29th 2006, 1:43 am
Thanks for the heads up Bondat