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Weirfire
May 23rd 2005, 4:20 am
One of my sites sells many items and I have been targetting individual items with the following URL format www mydomain.com/Catalogue?Item=134

Does this mean that the URL www mydomain.com/Catalogue.php?Item=134 gains the weight or does www mydomain.com/Catalogue.php gain all the weight?

This has probably been discussed before but I couldn't remember what you call the part where the ? starts so couldn't search for it.
sadcox66
May 23rd 2005, 4:36 am
Full domain name
www mydomain.com/Catalogue?Item=134
T0PS3O
May 23rd 2005, 4:38 am
Judging by this forum it looks like it's the file, not the full URI. Maybe only until the full URI has been evaluated... Not sure. Go rewrite if you can I'd say. Also gives an opportunity to add another KW in the URI.
jlawrence
May 23rd 2005, 5:02 am
The PR goes to the url however, the url catalogue?item=134 is different to item=133 etc etc.
It could be described as going to the file name as effectively the entire url is a file name as far as a SE bot is concerned.
If you've got correct linking within your site, the page will pass PR internally back to the homepage.
Weirfire
May 23rd 2005, 5:23 am
The PR goes to the url however, the url catalogue?item=134 is different to item=133 etc etc.
It could be described as going to the file name as effectively the entire url is a file name as far as a SE bot is concerned.
If you've got correct linking within your site, the page will pass PR internally back to the homepage.

That's good. It's what I wanted it to do. :)

Judging by this forum it looks like it's the file, not the full URI. Maybe only until the full URI has been evaluated... Not sure. Go rewrite if you can I'd say. Also gives an opportunity to add another KW in the URI.
Is what you are saying different from what jlawrence is saying? I think this forum only gives PR1 as a default for any thread because of the huge weight the previous pages have. I think if a certain thread was linked to from other sites then they would receive greater weights.
digitalpoint
May 23rd 2005, 8:37 am
www.mydomain.com/Catalogue.php?Item=134 gets the link credit.
Weirfire
May 23rd 2005, 9:05 am
www.mydomain.com/Catalogue.php?Item=134 gets the link credit.

Thanks Shawn. Have there been any other threads on this before?
chachi
May 23rd 2005, 9:49 am
Seems like the rewritten URLs perform much better (ie: without ?blah blah blah). A couple of sites that I "forgot" to do some rewriting on don't seem to get cached as well as the rewritten ones. I don't know why that is, maybe the MOTU knows why that is?