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Google and urls in forms

         

Arnett

3:29 am on Oct 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I want to use the following html form to send visitors to urls:

<FORM METHOD="GET" ACTION="http://targeturl.html" TARGET="_blank">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Button Text">
</FORM>

When the visitor presses the button they are sent to "http://targeturl.html?". When google spiders the page do they index the url in ACTION= or the browser destination page which has the "?" appended. If they index the destination url,the Pagerank in the toolbar drops by 1. It could also be harmful Pagerank-wise if Google has both targeturl.html and targeturl.html? indexed and finds them to be duplicates. Is this a real or imagined problem?

Brett_Tabke

2:50 am on Oct 7, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Generally - no. However, if you do have some raw links that include the get url, they they will index that.