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Clarification about the lang attribute

[julienraby]

Hi everyone, just a quick question. I'm don't know much about programming, and I was wondering how this king of pages were working:

Let's say: www.example.com/?lang=en and www.example.com/?lang=fr
Does the spiders consider these to pages as different?

From my understanding, this is the same page that load different content depending of this variable...

Could someone clarify this for me?

Thanks,

Julien

[barns101]

Well, the content will presumably be different, along with the different URLs, so I would say yes, it will be classed as a separate page. (Think about example.com/news.php?story=x for each news story. They would appear separately in the SERPs.) But it's still better (for SEO) to use mod_rewrite.