Use a static page for each product or dynamic with 1 variable?

As in Product10245.html or Products.html?id=10245

[bigtoga]

I've read conflicting information on this (go figure lol)... One thing says that static pages are best, whereas another says that no more than on variable is fine.

I mostly care about Google for the time being...

So which of these two links would be best, if there would be a difference?
[example.com...]
or
[example.com...]

Creating the static pages for a dynamic site would be a major pain that I'd like to avoid if there's not enough of a net gain in SE visibility (it would take me weeks of work at this point).

I know this has been discussed previously but I didn't find the post/thread in the recent posts so I thought I would open it up for discussion.

Thanks :)

[edited by: pageoneresults at 9:03 pm (utc) on May 10, 2005]
[edit reason] Examplified URI References [/edit]

[Prolific]

Static is usually better, both will get indexed. I'd recommend using mod_rewrite to do the "static" leg work while still using dynamic pages.

[leadegroot]

Google seems to be happy with up to 5 or so variables these days, but some people still think you need to avoid naming a variable 'id'.
But, generally, I think making your URL look static is much tidier and user friendly

[eggshell]

My understanding is that:

[example.com...]
or
[example.com...]

would be better.

I'm not sure whether you were specifically ruling this out as too much work?

Assuming you have links for each product somewhere - perhaps in a selectable product list - you will have the name to hand and should be able to easily construct the url as above for the link, which the search engines pick up. You then need mod_rewrite to convert that url pattern back to:

[example.com...]

[bigtoga]

My understanding is that:

[example.com...]
or
[example.com...]

would be better.

I dodn't know how to do this :( I'm using .NET with IIS (not apache) - I'll ask kon some of the asp.net forums. i could do it with a redirect but otherwise, I don't know what to do...

THanks!

[bigtoga]

For anyone using .NET that gets to this, the urlrewriter as <a href="Search Engine Friendly URLs using ASP.NET">this article</a> shows...