Example sites using URL rewriting

[darex]

I am trying to convince a designer of a small shopping site that he should use URL rewriting (to hide querystrings) in order to increase the number of pages from the site that google is indexing - as this seems to be the best practice as currently recommended on webmaster world.
Google is currently not indexing any dynamic pages at all from the site.

However the designer is unconvinced of the necessity of this and wants example sites.

I have been searching on google catalogues and all the major sites seem to use dynamic URL's (I found only one static site so far). So is URL rewriting actually quite rare?

Maybe if somebody knows of some good examples of static shopping sites they could sticky mail me (as I know you are not supposed to post URL's).

[ciml]

darex, the problem with examples is that there are usually quite a few factors involved.

Mostly, the pages with less dynamic looking URLs (not too may & characters, etc.) seem to require less PageRank to get crawled than pages with more dynamic looking URLs.

[darex]

Yes, this is what I understand in theory

but in practice what I am wondering is if the vast majority of ecommerce shopping sites use clearly dynamic URLs with query strings (?) and other complicated systems to retreive data then they are not bothering to use URL rewriting.

The implication is that it is only small sites that need to use URL rewriting to hide querystrings. (As big sites are going to get crawled anyway).

[lazerzubb]

AMAZON

Described in This old Article [hotwired.lycos.com]

[darex]

Thanks Lazerzubb