I have dynamic URL's like this: www.site.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi?crs=key&title=keys^study^online&dept=kl&path-1 I want to know, if this kind of URL's are okay to put in XML sitemap. Iam confused, because of Google guidelines here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html#escaped please help...
Yes, you can specify dynamic URL's, but be sure to carefully follow the instructions regarding entity escaping (I've screwed that up a few times).
Yes, but what about this URL.. http://www.site.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi?crs=key&title=keys^study^online&dept=kl&path-1 does it needs entity escaping? plz help..
Recommendations also shows that those URL should be able to change into something like: http://www.site.com/cgi-bin/script-crs-key-title-keys^study^online-dept-kl-path-1.html or http://www.site.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi/crs/key/title/keys^study^online/dept/kl/path-1 to get a better location in SE results. For this you will need to have this specific command instructions in you .htaccess file (unix servers only) Options +FollowSymLinks Options -MultiViews RewriteEngine on RewriteRule script-crs-(.*)-title-(.*)-dept-(.*)-path-(.*)\.html script.cgi?crs=$1&title=$2&dept=$3&path=$4
yes you can add the urls in the sitemap..but in future i would recommend you to use mod_rewrite for changing the dynamic URLs into simple seo friendly URLs....you will surely be indexed better
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