Using query string variables for page urls

[asusplay]

I know this has been discussed in the past but I was wondering whether there were any discernible issues with Google these days by having pages referenced by a variable, ie

/news.asp?id=12345

The site is on shared hosting so I cannot do a rewrite on IIS.

Thanks

[asusplay]

Would there be duplicate content issues by having the pages referenced by a query string, and those pages that in theory do not exist, or would I have to apply a 301 redirect if no content exists? (ie to try and prevent duplicate content)

Is there any way that I could get around this issue? (Aside from never doing sites in asp again!)

[asusplay]

I ended up scouring the net and for anyone else interested in having clean SEOfriendly URLs in ASP and are with shared hosting the answer lies in this article which i found was the only one that worked and was laid out in a very simple way

[forums.openhosting.co.uk...]

Hope it's of help to someone else too.