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Timmee  
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 More options May 17, 7:49 am
From: Timmee
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:49:36 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 7:49 am
Subject: How does Google do with parameters?
I know from experience with such sites that Google can crawl and index
urls like, for example, www.example.com/?type=square&color=red.

My question (if anyone really knows) is would it be worth a re-design
of 1000 page site to make the URLs more SEF like, for example,
www.example.com/square/red.php or could Google rank both pages just as
well?


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Autocrat  
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 More options May 17, 8:06 am
From: Autocrat
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 15:06:09 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 8:06 am
Subject: Re: How does Google do with parameters?
As far as I know, they should be roughly equal.

Reasoning is htat both URLs have the same 'content', so any benefit
for having topical words in the URL/Address (for links and such) is
present in both... I doubt if google pays attention to ?=& etc.

The real benefit appears with UF-URLs (User Friendly) - if they are
correctly constructed, you can make memorable and impressionable URLs
that appeal all in themselves.
I've even seen URLs with 'power phrasing' and 'call to action' terms
in them...
http:// . www . somesite . tld / products / buy-red-shoes-now
http:// . www . somesite . tld / shoes / you-want-these-shoes

I thought it was a stroke of genius (personally I don't have the
stones to try it out myself though.).
Wonder....
If you squished it all up... could it become subliminal?
http:// . www . somesite . tld / ob / one /
thesearenotthedroidsyouarelookingfor

Name the film.
Did it work?


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Timmee  
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 More options May 17, 8:42 am
From: Timmee
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 15:42:17 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 8:42 am
Subject: Re: How does Google do with parameters?

On May 16, 3:06 pm, Autocrat wrote:

Star Wars.  I cheated - I googled it.

Thanks for the input.


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tuscl_founder  
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(2 users)  More options May 17, 9:51 am
From: tuscl_founder
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:51:51 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 9:51 am
Subject: Re: How does Google do with parameters?
I can tell you I have restructured my site to use no parameters and it
has increased google indexing my site at least 10 fold.  where I would
get 400 googlebot hits a day, I now get 4000.

Of course, it hasn't helped my ranking at all :(

On May 16, 3:42 pm, Timmee wrote:


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