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I have created a site for my school in which I teach. I am concerned regarding our news section. The news is updated 2-3 times per week, the article on the front page changes each time as does the main news pages. the content is constantly changing.
I am worried that the dynamic address of the articles will affect my google ranking.
eg
http://www.example.com/defaultnews.asp?dismode=article&artid=XX
is the article currently featured on the frontpage, which is a wild long url? every few days this will change to a different artid=
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
David
It is generally thought that as long as you limit your urls to 2 querystring variables that Google will still find/index it ok.
It has also been suggested that the use of "id" in a querystring variable name can lead to a page not being indexed (though this has not been conclusively proven). SO you may want to rename the "artid" variable to something like "art" (ie get rid of the id).
The pagerank of the linking page may also have influence on whether or not a page with querystring variables is indexed.
Hope this helps.
I have worked tonight to get the titles to alter, up to tonight the title for every page on my site was the same, it took a little work on the dynamic pages but I got there.
I read that google takes the title tag serious so I set it to the title of the article on the dynamic news article.
I am learning, there is more to this and just submitting, it is a pity there is no real reason for people to link to the site though :(
David
