Google and url parameters

is there a known limitation for this?

[Bundy]

Hi there!

I would like to know if there is a limit on how many parameters a dynamic page can have in the url (i.e. www.example.com/mypage?param1=A&param2=B&param3=C&....) in order to be indexed by google.

I've read about this in other posts, but none tells specifically which is the limit. Some tells the limit is 2, maybe 3 parameters, others says they have up to 8 parameters without problem.

Also some posts describe a solution for this issue (assuming it is an issue) joining all parameters into one single parameter (i.e: www.example.com/mypage?param1=A,B,C,...) so the page only has one parameter visible by Ggooglebot. My doubt here is if there is a limit for the length in a parameter in order for the page to get indexed by google?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer my humble questions.

Bundy

[edited by: ciml at 11:14 am (utc) on Sep. 7, 2004]
[edit reason] Examplified. [/edit]

[Airportibo]

Allthough you will find many examles of pages being indexed with a huge amount of cgi-Parameters, we have been recomended by G not to use more than two and to avoid parameter names like (or containing) "ID" since this is used to identify sesson-ids.

[Bundy]

Thanks Airportibo!

Well, that forces me to reduce the amount of parameters by joining all parameters into one or two, but now the doubt of how long can a single parameter be is killing me. Technically there is no limit, but maybe Google has some policy about it (seems logic to me at least).

Anyone knows something about it?

Thanks!

[Airportibo]

Why don't you just get rid of the cgi-parameters at all by using rewrite rules? Then you can encode the parameters in the url itself