Hi all: I have an on-site directory on one of my websites where I exchange links from - but with the little link exchange tool that I wrote to ease the link building process, the pages for a particular category are dynamically filled with links. I only want to display 10 on a page... so I wrote the little app to only display 10 on a page, so the first page lists 10 links and has a url like this: http://www.abcSite.com/resources/category.php Then the next 10 get put on a page with a url like this: http://www.abcSite.com/resources/category.php?page=2 This is the first time I've written a little app like this -- is there something in how I have that set up that'll hurt me for SEO? Thanks in advance for your input
You may want to check out the Search Engine Simulator which can give you and idea of what the search engines actually "see". Some things to consider are: some webmasters will not trade links with a site having the query parameter (even one), if the query results can cause an outbound link to show on one page today and, after other links are added, show on a different page later, then some webmasters will drop the link to you due to not finding your link to them. All in all, I would believe that the general concept you present here should work just fine if all else is OK. IMHO.
just throw a mod rewrite on the directory so it makes it like /category-3.htm , that see,s to make everyone happy