How Google see 'view.php' and 'view.php?id=30'

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[jamesyap]

Hi,

For experts of googles. view.php is a script use to view different articales base on the article id.

viewing view.php of course will generate a default page.

So how did google see this? Will they crawl both page? Did they see it as same page or different page?

AND MOST IMPORTANT

Will an inbound link from other side to view.php?id=32 give a page rank VOTE to view.php

Please also give any comments regarding this.

-- James Yap --

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[amanda21]

They will be indexed as seperate pages.

Not sure about the page rank question, still trying to figure that one out myself.

[Terry_Plank]

Your question:
AND MOST IMPORTANT
Will an inbound link from other side to view.php?id=32 give a page rank VOTE to view.php
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First thing is that Google and other search engines don't like URL's with a? in them because it might be a place they could get lost in a feed back loop in an extensive database. So, you need to find a way to extract the? in your php?id-32

Second, PageRank is more page specific. So a link to a specific page could help a page it is linked to, but not nearly much for the second page. There is kind of a minor spill over, but you can't count on it.

Basically, Google will index any and all pages you present to them in a manner they will spider.

[amanda21]

I know that AV isn't too hot at indexing dynamic urls, but I don't have any problem with them in google or fast.

I have a site with around 200 page.asp?id=8767 style pages and google crawls around 30 a day all month, and the whole lot on every dance. They rank well too. The pr is 1 less than the static pages, but then they are not linked to direct from the index page, whereas the static pages are.

[Terry_Plank]

Good to know of your experience, amanda21. It hasn't been ours and many SEO education sites say to watch out for it. So, as always, it is something one has to experiment with and find out for oneself.

[Torben Lundsgaard]

Google will try to index URL's with? but I have experienced that you get more linkpop if you make them static. Do a search on mod_rewrite (Apache) or ISAPI filter (IIS) for info about rewriting URL's

[darex]

Torben:

do you know of a way of rewriting URL's on IIS without using thirdparty tools. I did a search on ISAPI Filters but only seemed to get third party tools.

I am trying to find a way of rewriting query strings on a hosted site with php on IIS.

[iJeep]

I recently switched from the file.asp?dataname=data format on my dynamic pages using a method similar to what is explained on this page:
[asp101.com...]
it was a lot cheaper than xqasp and so far it seems to work well. I did it right after the Nov deep crawl, so I haven't seen results in the SERPs yet. But I did do a header check on my pages and it looks just like it would on a static page.

If it is any consolation, Google has been crawling thousands of my pages over the past week span, so it must be finding something.