Dynamic URL SEO Question

Hey there,

If you have a website that has product details page.

You do something like..

viewDetails.cfm?productID=123
viewDetails.cfm?productID=456
viewDetails.cfm?productID=789

Do search engines see this as three different pages?

A few weeks ago I submitted a sitemap to google for a real estate website, and it says over 18,000 links were submitted because of the detail pages.

Sincerely,
Travis Walters

 

Yes, all of these are seperate pages.

 

Google Webmaster's guideline says that you should not have many query parameters...so I would say as long as the qry parameters are 1 or 2, you are fine.

 

google can differentiate those pages but query string in url is not seo friendly. i had work on some big dynamic sites before and i had done mode rewrite in .htaccess file. that is one of the best solution

 

I don't think it's the query string that makes it not to be SEO friendly, it's the way the query string is populated. If you have a unique name for each product and use that in your query string, instead of the productID, the query sting will be much more SEO friendly. Though I'd still limit the query string to two query parameters.

 

Yes.I agree to your opinion.

 

I agree. Mod Rewrite is the best chose . If you can do it - go for it.
No parameters.