every page has same name

content management system

[ogletree]

I use a content management system that every link has the same page splah.asp. When you click on links it just adds stuff after that page.

Examples:
splash.asp?pane_3=body-widget_thing

Will Google have a hard time with this.

[Kandevil]

If there is only one variable per url then google shouldn't have a problem with it.

If you have more than one variable, perhaps you could consider using mod_rewrite if you can. From a site usability basis, using mod_rewrite anyway could also be an idea.

A site search for mod rewrite will give you some useful information to look into.

[Krapulator]

I would investigate ways to make it produce pages with different names.

[neh2008]

I wouldn't worry about the page name and arguements passed too.

Some of my pages have a looong url with 4-5 variables in it and it works out good. I also have 1st position for a highly competitive KW in Google, the page in in PHP with more than 4 variables in it.

Google also is trying to improve on handling long URLs with multiple variables in it. lets hope for the good.

Cheers

[jady]

I thought the question mark "?" will throw the Bot off? This is a problem one of our PHP sites has with the "?" in the URL...

[Kandevil]

It seems in some instances the bot will index a page of ours with an & or more in it, but then will not follow that any further with links on that page.

But more often than not they just don't get indexed at all. Those who are seeing quality indexing are lucky :)

[ogletree]

One thing we did is add a sitemap I wonder if that is the key.

[Kandevil]

The problem here I see is that with a site map, yes every page could be indexed, but no idea of your link structure of the site can be established, as it will just look like every page is linked to from the site map.

Whilst if all the pages can be followed by the bots then the internal link structure of the site can be established correctly.

I think you'll find a better rank site in the SERPS with a proper internal link structure that can be fully indexed.

[sun818]

Unique page titles organizes your site in a meaningful way. Why have page titles at all if they are all the same?

[Yidaki]

sun818, allthough ogletree was refering to page names not titles, i second that using different page titles is one of the most important thing for se's, users and searchers.

ogletree, if your cms isn't allready set up to use different titles for the generated pages, you should quickly work on this!

[sun818]

Sorry, I misread the text. I should ask, since every page is processed through the same asp page, are the page titles all the same as well?

[ogletree]

The cms has the ability to have unique titles and descriptions on each page. I have already set those up on most pages. I thought my developer was doing it but he did not so I had to go back and fix it.

I had one suggestion that I create an html file with just one frame in it and it loads the weird url.

This is not too diffucult since we don't have a ton of pages.