Google reading complex links

[toddb]

I have some links that up until now, I did not think Google could read. I will show a cleaned up example:

out.php?perm=THEIRSITE.com&link=top2_THEIRSITE.com&PHPSESSID=ad282d8a3142ef3af51007428c95b2db

Their site is in the THEIRSITE spot. I use this on several pages and all the sites I link this way are showing backlinks for each page. The breaks in the link were done when copied over and are not there in the link.

[figment88]

If it is widespread, that would be fantastic news.

My brother has a postNuke site that he has been bugging me to make Google friendly. I've been putting him off hoping Google would start spidering the URL's before I committed to the work.

[GoogleGuy]

We're always improving our link analysis and ability to read new links--but it's always a good idea to drop the session ID.

[Oaf357]

That would be real nice if Google could index that kind of URL regularly.

[mud]

So if you have a url like:
[blah.com...]

Google will definatelly not read it? Or sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. Perhaps higher PR pages would get them spidered and lower PR pages woudln't?

Anyone know this?

[Mohamed_E]

mud,

The general feeling is that Google will read up to two dynamic variables, as long as there is no session ID involved. A lot has been written about this, check some of the threads returned by this search:

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[DavidT]

If my domain name is offwhitewoodenwholesalewidgets.com and i do a search on G for "off white wooden wholesale widgets", exact match, you would expect, given the uniqueness of the name, that a page from my site would be the first result. It isn't, it's 60 of 60.

The first result is:
Off White Wooden Wholesale Widgets [title]
Off white wooden wholesale widgets unique design, solid construction.[description]
www.a-site-that-links-to-my-site.com/directory/out.php3?ID=902 - 8k - Cached - Similar pages

This is just a dynamic off site link to my own site.
The title, description, and page kb size are exactly the same as my site's index page.

As far as I can tell G is confusing a LINK to my site with the site itself. If this is the reason the site was struck with PR zerodom two updates ago I wish they would just stop spidering such links.

[Mohamed_E]

David,

offwhitewoodenwholesalewidgets.com is parsed by Google as two words: "offwhitewoodenwholesalewidgets" and "com". Google does not break the first long word into alleged "components", and I believe it is correct. Should "therapist" match "the rapist"?

[DavidT]

Yes I can see your point Mohamed_E. But the same search on any other se returns my index page as the first result. The question for me is still why is G treating an offsite link as if it were my own root page.

[Trimm]

In this instance then, would it be a good idea to build a static page consisting of dynamic links that you would like Google to index?

[atadams]

You do need to be careful when using "id=" in the URL query string.

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