Dynamic URL with many parameters

How much could I put?

[guezo2]

I thought Google doesn't have any problem indexing dynamic pages with parameters in the URL like .../mypage.php?x=4&y3&z=2
But I wonder how many parameters I could transmit in the URL in order to be indexed by Google... Is there a limit? After a few searches it seems that Google only takes into account 2 parameters.

[Dinkar]

I don't know if there is any limit or not. But if there is any limit then the number is bigger than 2.

See: [google.com...]

[Sinner_G]

I thought googlebot could not access any pages with question marks in the URL?

[ciml]

Googlebot does index pages with '?', but it is less likely to do so. If you have enough PageRank they'll normally be followed, but with less spidering depth.

[Sinner_G]

If you have enough PageRank they'll normally be followed

Seems like toobar PR 4 is not enough.

[edit_g]

Nor is 6... Ours never get pulled.

[PaulPaul]

Hello Everyone,

My first post to this great forum.

I just started a new site about a month ago. I currently have a greyed out PR, and am not in Google at all. The beautiful "lady", "googlebot" has been visiting my site for the past couple days, and she is following most my Dynamic URL's which contain up to 3-4 ?'s. I dont know how well the site will be ranked, but I can tell by the log's, that "googlebot" has been requesting the dynamic URL's.

Thanks for all the great info. Hope to be able to share more. Thanks.

Paul

[ciml]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Paul.
(Make sure to read paynt's welcome post [webmasterworld.com])

If Google is spidering the dynamic looking URLs and following links from them, then I'd expect you to most likely have a decent PageRank after the August update.

[nipear]

We HAD our 3 variable dynamic pages indexed but they were dropped at the beginning of may. I think it is an issue of PR and site navigation. We only have a PR5 for the main page and PR4 for most of the inside pages. I've added links on our index page to our dynamic pages and still no go. Googlebot is at our site right now and not taking any of 3 dynamic pages. Googlebot will look at a couple but won't follow any links on them, it's a little frustrating, but 600 out of 1300 pages indexed is not too bad....

[muesli]

hi,

i found this on the web (don't remember where though):

"In the recent past, most engines did not index dynamically generated pages, and this is still true today. That is because a dynamically generated page can cause the spider to enter a loop from which it can not escape. But that is slowly changing. Perhaps the leader in this area is Google. This engine began indexing dynamic pages (even including the question mark) this year. You can also now submit a dynamically generated page to the likes of HotBot and some others. The factor here seems to be that the spider will not follow links from a dynamically generated page. That seems to be the way the engines ensure that their spiders do not get stuck in a loop."

read this theory on a couple of SEO-sites already, sounds reasonable. what do you think?

muesli

[muesli]

post scriptum:

i can't believe that google would index dynamic pages on sites with high PR but not on others.

google would do everything to index as many pages as possible, regardless of PR. if they don't index a page this must have a substantial technical reason, one is true even for PR 10.

muesli

[andy04031]

muesli

<<i can't believe that google would index dynamic pages on sites with high PR but not on others.
It's a matter of fact that sites with a high PR get deeper crawled than sites with low PR, if they have problems with dynamic content the PR is lower or 0 - this could end in a circle.

<< google would do everything to index as many pages as possible, regardless of PR. if they don't index a page this must have a substantial technical reason, one is true even for PR 10.

Of course, provide google bot with what he likes most - readable content and not dynamic hidden content, to get on the very top needs a little bit more effort than creating a dynamic website. I'm not saying that dynamic driven websites are easy and quick to do, I'm saying that the best way is to create your dynamic content and conventional pages, let them go from every conventional page to the relevant dynamic page that means you need to create more pages to get attention from Google, there are discussions about dynamic content problems with SE, webmaster with that kind of problem may should cut the time they spend for this particular problem discussions and spend the time they win in creating static, conventional, content rich and optimized pages and their problems are resolved.
I'd rather invest much more time in creating sites and know they are top and get visitors = potential clients than switch to dynamic sites or CMS systems to make the maintenance easy for visitors I don't get because of no listings.

[Key_Master]

My experience is that Googlebot will follow links that contain a ? in them if the site has a PR5+.

The beautiful "lady", "googlebot"...

Oh, Lord...

[muesli]

hi,

i can't believe the "dynamic page crawling depends on PR" theory.

see my last post in this thread: [webmasterworld.com...] for my arguments.

cheers, muesli