SEs and dynamic links

variables in links

[kirigoe]

I've tried to find a good answer to how SEs react to special kinds of links but haven't found one good enough. I'm exclusively using links consisting only of variables on my site, every link has an "x" variable for page name, followed by optional variables like "id" for a specific entry. so the links looks like "?x=news" or "?x=gallery&id=5". would this affect the crawlers? googlebot crawls my domain regularly (although the domain content is quite new) but it usually only crawls one or two pages per visit while there are almost a hundred unique links to crawl.

should i revert to the good old "news.php" style links or are the current style safe?

best regards,
daniel

[gbaker123]

Hi kirigoe,

Welcome to Webmasterworld. My guess is that Google may be picking up that they are database generated pages and limiting the requests to keep the load down on your sever. If your system can handle it, I would recommend going the no query variable route and keeping then about one directory deep. I have done this with my site and Google has already indexed 4586 pages on my site this month.

Hope this helps,
George

[takagi]

so the links looks like "?x=news" or "?x=gallery&id=5".

You better avoid the parameter name 'id' because it could indicate an session ID. Even if those pages get spidered, it could mean less pages get spidered or it takes longer before the whole site is indexed. Just rename 'id' to 'item', 'cnt' or so and it will be OK.