Will adding?Parameter to static page hurt?

Adding Parameter for better analysis with Webtrends

[zgb999]

We have a site with static pages and good SERP for their market. Now we need to analyse which link on which page is clicked how often to further optimize the site and keep people longer on it. To do that we can add parameters to the links and run an analysis based on those parameters.

E.g. on the homepage there are 2 links to contact.htm and we want to know which link is used more often. So we could add contact.htm?name=xy to one of the links. Like that we can easily track which link is clicked how often.

Will this hurt the spidering (fewer pages spidered) or even the SERP? After all Google might consider this as dynamic page.

Maybe it will even be looked at as duplicate content if we have a link to contact.htm?name=xy on one page and to contact.htm?name=zz on another whereby the page it links to is always the same (the?name= parameter is ignored by the server but can be analysed in the logfiles).

[alxdean]

I would not worry about it too much.
google might index the page twice but will only show one of the pages in the result set.
Spidering should really not be a problem, just your backlinks to that page might get a bit screwed as the backlink would not be to "page.htm" but to "page.htm?1" which are two distinct urls for google. So I would not suggest doing that to your home page.

[zgb999]

Thank you!

What about contact.htm#xy would this influence my backlinks? Are contact.htm and contact.htm#xy two distinct URLs for Google too?