I want to know the significance of & and & in any URL of website like http://www.articles-heaven.com/arti...for-Mediterranean-Ferry-Boats&articleid=11073 has &articleid. What should be given in the coding so that google or other search engines face no problem in spidering and indexing URL and also can this be a duplicate page issue?
Hello, You should never see & in the URL, that is just a HTML replacement for &. As far as search engines are concerned they don't necessarily consider different URL as different pages, but instead they look at the content of the page and determine if it is a different page or not. What I mean by that, is that there should be no "duplicate page" issue. Hope that helps
yes you are right...... & is html equivalent of &. There are so many other notation equivalents; ® --- ® ----> registered sign © --- ©---> copyright sign ‰ -- ‰-> per mille sign, etc