Are Question Marks the kiss of death?

Search Engine treatment of URL's with question marks

[jimvet]

I use urls with "?'s" followed by parameters to link to internal pages. Will the search engine crawlers be able to crawl and index these pages?

for example, a link from the home page to a product category page is:

http://www.example.com/category.aspx?categoryID=12

and a product page has a url of:

http://www.example.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=ABV000024

Will I ever get these pages indexed as is?

Thanks!

Jim

[edited by: pageoneresults at 1:40 pm (utc) on June 5, 2005]
[edit reason] Removed URI References - Please Refer to TOS [/edit]

[Matt Probert]

Yes. They will get indexed by Google, and probably other search engines.

Matt

[mm1220]

You will only get into trouble if you use session id variables in your urls.

[Krapulator]

Using the string "ID" in your variables can cause some problems. I would lean towards something like this:

http://www.example.com/category.aspx?cat=12
http://www.example.com/ProductInfo.aspx?prod=ABV000024