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I have reviewed the Google FAQ and there is no mention of java server pages.
I would assume jsp sites would be treated the same as php driven sites?
If anyone can offer any info on this I would appreciate it! :-)
If you search for .jsp in Google [google.de] you get about 13,400,000 results. So it seems that there is no problem with JSP.
This does not come as a surprise, since it really does not matter from the point of view of a spider/browser how the content of the serverīs reply is generated. It doesnīt matter because there is really no way of knowing how it was genereated. The extension may give a hint. But there is no guarantee that a page whose URL ends with .jsp is really generated with java. It could very well be a static html page, a page generated with PHP, Perl, C, C++, C#, Pascal, Delphi, Assembly language or any other language you can think of. It could even be that a request is forwarded to some country with very low wages where real people look up the request in a real phone book, enter the information they find into their computer and have the server send that back as the reply. All the spider/browser ever does is sending and receiving HTTP requests.
So unless you use cookies which GoogleBot does not handle or session ids which make for unique URLs there is no problem.
BTW having a query string in a URL is by no means sufficient reason to believe that the resource the URL points to will be generated dynamically. It could be that the query string is used to serve different static html documents depending on the setting in the query string.
Andreas
What is the pr of the site? If it is fairly high (like 5 or 6), and you are not getting spidered deeply then you may have some problem with either your url string or your link structure.
Although googlebot will parse it's way through /'s,?'s, ='s etc.... I think most will agree that simpler url strings are better.
