Dynamic URL Parameter Placement

is?a=1&b=2 the same as?b=2&a=1

[Chico_Loco]

Well?

Was just wondering if I had 2 urls dynamically generated

1. script.asp?a=1&b=2
2. script.asp?b=2&a=1

Are these the same to google, will it only index one of them or will it index the two of them, of course the duplicate filters will come into play in the SERPS as the content will be exactly the same, but would google know the difference in terms of the parameters and their values?

[savvy1]

Yeah....on some dynamic sites there can be so many ways to generate the exact same "page".. session id's, default paramaters, extra params, etc. I wonder how Google handles this when the spiders follows several different ones.

[socks]

I've heard that google doesn't like more than one variable passed through the URL, we never had any problems with one variable. I'm no expert though, just passing on what I heard. We changed our URL's using modrewrite now, so instead of view_site.php?site_id=608 it's now like /reviews/545/index.html and will be changed even further later today to be like /reviews/directory2/directory3/

[edited by: Marcia at 1:21 pm (utc) on Sep. 12, 2002]
[edit reason] changed to generic filenames [/edit]

[korkus2000]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld socks,
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Google should see those two urls as different pages. It could end up merging them in the future because of duplicate content. Dynamic pages need to have good Page Rank to be spidered.

From Google [google.com...]

Your pages are dynamically generated. We are able to index dynamically generated pages. However, because our web crawler can easily overwhelm and crash sites serving dynamic content, we limit the amount of dynamic pages we index.

I have many dynamic pages spidered on many sites, some many dynamic pages deep with multiple variables passed in the string. IMHO I think if there is a link to both pages with different strings Google will see them as unique pages to be spidered.