Webmaster Guidelines and &id parameter

how exact is it?

[Sobriquet]

Cheking out [google.com...] , i noticed the last line in technical guidelines section

Don't use "&id=" as a parameter in your URLs, as we don't include these pages in our index.

We had been regularly using urls like

mysite.abc/newsphp?id=1234&t_id=1234567 etc

does that mean we are killing our own sites?

or is it specifically about exact term '&id' in the url?

is &id a specific taken text? or the similars too?

[doc_z]

Although you will find URLs with "&id=" as a parameter [google.com], I would always use mod_rewrite to generate static looking URIs. (It's the safer way.)

[Sobriquet]

Doc_z, thanks for the suggestion. I tried the mod rewriting but cud nto really get to it. Hope you can help a little.

the urls are

[mysite.com...]

and

[mysite.com...]

I want to rewrite it to

[mysite.com...]

and

[mysite.com...]

respectively

Could anyone help please?

[Halfdeck]

I'd try something like this (assuming your values are only numerical):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/$ /news.php?id=$1 [L]

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/$ /news.php?id=$1&t_id=$2 [L]

Make sure all the non-sensical urls e.g. domain.com//1/ gets handled properly.