q about links

[doniv]

are url with? & or any other symbols in them registered as links by crawlers?

for ex in LS URls have? ijn the URl will these be counted as links?

wht other symbols should i look out for?

[Skylo]

from wat I have read in the forums, google will penalise URL's with?'s in them

[Quinn]

Google seems to be pretty good at picking up dynamic links anymore. The lower the number of parameters the better.

[pixel_juice]

>>google will penalise URL

Google doesn't penalise any url with query strings. But some pages (especially those with sessionIDs) could lead the search engine to index the same page over and over again thinking that because the url is different, so is the page, so they have to be careful about which ones to list. The less parameters the better, so if you have something like www.widget.com/?page=home you should be fine.

[bobmcd]

What is the BEST way to express links from internal pages to other pages within the same site?

For example, I have seen the following when on an interior page(for simplicity sake, let's say page one of a site):
page one internal link, linking to page2 within site:

<a href="/page2.htm">Title of Page </a>

and have also seen this structure:
<a href=../page2.htm">Title of Page </a>

AND have also seen THIS structure:
<a href="www.nameofdomain/page2.htm">Title of Page

WHICH STRUCTURE is best?

Please advise.

Thanks!

Bobmcd