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Does length of dynamic urls affect the Indexing timing? of the page

         

raj1094

7:03 am on May 11, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Hi everyone,

My website has long url (length) dynamic pages, will the length of the dynamic url has any effect on the indexing time of that respective pages.

AnkitMaheshwari

9:41 am on May 11, 2009 (gmt 0)

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This will be useful:
[googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com...]

g1smd

10:31 am on May 11, 2009 (gmt 0)

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What is important is to eradicate parameters that do not need to be in the URL, and to ensure that all values are checked for correctness (and 404 returned for wrong values, and for wrong combinations of values). There's a lot of discussion about that in previous Duplicate Content topics.

Robert Charlton

1:21 am on May 12, 2009 (gmt 0)

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The above-referenced Google Webmaster Central Blog post on "Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs" elicited a contentious discussion on this forum, and I'd recommend that you read it as well....

Google Says Don't Rewrite Dynamic URLs
[webmasterworld.com...]

Related to your question, from the Google Blog article (with Google's emphasis in black italics, and my emphasis in red)...

...There is no limit on the number of parameters, but a good rule of thumb would be to keep your URLs short (this applies to all URLs, whether static or dynamic). You may be able to remove some parameters which aren't essential for Googlebot and offer your users a nice looking dynamic URL. If you are not able to figure out which parameters to remove, we'd advise you to serve us all the parameters in your dynamic URL and our system will figure out which ones do not matter....

Robert Charlton

5:28 am on May 12, 2009 (gmt 0)

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A PS to clarify my comment above... The section highlighted in red is a passage I'd emphasized in our discussion here, commenting on Google's intended audience for their article. If you do know what you're doing, there can be many good reasons for using rewrites to shorten the urls and make them more user and SE friendly.