HTML special chars in URL

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by AHA7, Sep 18, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    Some sites prefer to HTML-encode their links and so a link to my dynamic page (http://example.com/show.php?id=35&title=hello) would look like this on the source code: http://example.com/show.php?id=35&title=hello
    Notice that the "&" is HTML-encoded to "&".
    The question now is: does Google and other SE's HTML-decode links? Does Google see the link "http://example.com/show.php?id=35&title=hello" as a link to the page "http://example.com/show.php?id=35&title=hello"?
     
    AHA7, Sep 18, 2007 IP
  2. sirrus

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    Google Sitemaps are supposed to be HTML-encoded, so I would assume that as long as the referring document is given the appropriate DOCTYPE, it shouldn't be a problem.
     
    sirrus, Sep 18, 2007 IP