A question regarding 301's and PR.

[mavrick]

Hi

I have several links pointing to different pages on my site. I want to make the most of Google's PageRank technology, so I have a question regarding 301's and PR.

Is it ok to redirect a SE Bot that arrives at my site from a dirty link, www.mysite.com/index.asp?id=12345, to the same page but without the query string, www.mysite.com/index.asp.

Furthermore, is it ok to then keep redirecting this same Bot on every page that it visits? I.e. The Bot arrives from a link, www.mysite.com/index.asp?id=12345, gets 301 redirected to www.mysite.com/index.asp, then follows an internal link to www.mysite.com/about-us.asp?id=12345&cid=12345 and gets a 301 back to www.mysite.com/about-us.asp.

The reason for the above question is based on our internal behaviour tracking. We have many query strings used for tracking only which dont actually change the content of the page.

Thanks

[willybfriendly]

I might not be understanding your question correctly, but it would seem to me that if you redirect everything bat to your index page the bots will effectively see your site as being only one page. That would not probably work very well for you.

WBF

[mavrick]

Sorry, i mean if there is a link pointing to the aboutus page or contactus page, it will go to this page, and will be redirected to the same page butr with out the bit in the query string....

[larryn]

mavrick,

What do you hope to gain by the re-direct?

If its the same content why bother - to get pretty URL's in the address bar?

Generally, from every presentation I've heard and every article I've read, you don't want to muck with Google's bot, as that will affect your status in their index.

Your example looks like you are using session ID's in your URL's query string -- if you don't want Google to provide that same ID to visitors referred from Google, why not modify your server/pages to not re-write the URL's if the agent is Google?

Larry

Larry