Static and Dynamic pages on google

which is better, should i block dynamic..

[iam david lee]

Hi

I have a shopping website, for each product i sell i have created a static page. But because its a shopping site i also have dynamic versions of these pages for the shoping system.

Google has indexed 60% of the dynamic pages and only about 30% of the static pages. Some of the indexed pages are showing only the URL and not the title.

Because the dynamic and static pages are similar will google think its duplicate?

I though static pages might be better for search engines so I have modified the dynamic pages so they dont get index. Is this a good idea as the number of pages index by google for my site is going down after I did this. Should I let both to be indexed or just the static pages.

I would appreciate any help....

Thanks
David

[iam david lee]

my sites pages have gone down, would really appreicate any help...

[166geary]

If the content for both dynamic and static are the same, I assume that you maybe penalized for duplicates. If you have time to experiment, I would try either place a no NOINDEX on the dynamic or pull out the pages (static or dynamic) which are not ranking well.

By the way, probably a bigger question is: which versions are ranking better, the static or dynamic?

[iam david lee]

hi
thanks for the reply

at the moment dynamic is ranking well. But i would prefer to keep the static pages on the index as everyone says HTML pages are better and dynamic ones have query text on the URL (eg:?id=00).

Thanks

David

[zeus]

All my sites are static, it takes alot of work, but my site has been stable the last year or so on Google and I hope it stays that way.

zeus

[Matt_James]

Have a look at using mod rewrite (if you are using *nix server)
It worked well for me after my dynamic pages started dropping out of the index.
Google gets /shop/cat/product.html instead of shop.php?cat=abc&product=xyz