Will Google index the page...

[GreenLeaf]

Hi all!
Will Google index the page that url looks like:
thesite.com/links/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=7
Thanks.

[Birdman]

It is very possible that it will be included. However, it is advisable to keep parameters limited to one, which you could do easily by condensing both params into one, separated by a delimiter.

Like this:

thesite.com/links/index.php?params=displaycat-7

Then, explode() [php.net] params back into the variables.

$my_params = explode [php.net]("-",$params);
$action = $my_params[0];
$catid = $my_params[1];

Another great method is to eliminate the querystring altogether with mod_rewrite [httpd.apache.org]

[takagi]

Google will only index pages that are being linked. So make sure a link exist for each combination of 'action' and 'catid'. To check what pages have been indexed by Google search for

site:www.mydomain.com -blablabla

Now Google will display all the pages of your site in the index that don't contain the string blablabla.