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How many characters in URL

After how many characters stop the spider

         

andy04031

1:32 pm on Jul 4, 2002 (gmt 0)

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A problem on dynamic driven websites is the URL, very often is it way too long (I found some with 151 characters). How many characters can the spider read?

ciml

5:09 pm on Jul 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

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This ODP category [dmoz.org] has a 160 character URI, or 153 character URL. The low PageRank is just because it's a lot of links from the Google home page.

The problem with some dynamic sites is the use of ? and & characters, which makes Googlebot less keen to spider them (though it still can do with enough PageRank).