Dynamic Content

Does google spider after a?

[designhaus]

My question stems from building a dynamic website and speaking with alot of other webmasters. The question is if I have a URL in my site like:

www.widget.com/widets?123456

Most webmasters I have spoke to about this is that Google stops at the? and does not spider this page properly.

Any thoughts on this matter will be appreciated.

[georged]

The? in itself is not a bar to spidering.

Do a search for
dynamic spiderable
on Google

You'll see the first two results have a? in the URL and webmasterworld comes up 4th and 5th with a discussion on this.
:)

[designhaus]

thanks georged! muchly appreciated :)

[MikeBeverley]

One thing that you should watch out for though is using?id= as Google has 'hinted' that this looks like a session ID and 'may' be ignored.

If it just goes straight to the?123456 then there shouldn't be a problem.