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Whats the deal with variable that are passed as part of the URL string? For instance current variable is 'locid' for location. would I be better off naming the variable 'location'?
A webby friend of mine also suggested that I look into the matter further as lots of pages are called using 'prodid' (product id) codes. They are auto generated as part of a small VB prog that updates the db. The codes that are generated are something like: ow_ph_pop_01. I'm not sure if this kind of stuff affects SEO. I suspect it does as my friend also suggested maybe lookign into mod rewrite. I plan to look into this immediately after finishing this post, btu would appreciate any comments that all you seo guru's can offer.
One last thing, and please forgive my ignorance, is to ask whether pages dynamic pages are good for seo purposes. Because the information on these pages is forever changing how are they handled by the se's?
Thanks in advance to everyone involved in this fantastic site. Its been a great help to me for content creation and making sure that my html pages are tagged correctly etc. I'm looking forward to delving deeper into recent posts but due to my lack of experince with forums my searches seem to take me to posts from as far back as 2004. I doubt that all the data given is still relevant as algos are constantly changing.
Can anyone give me link to an up-to-date SEO to do list?
Thanks again guys, you are all a real big help to me in so many ways.
If you want (better?) advise about SEO stuff then it would be worth posting on the [webmasterworld.com...] section, as SEO is a HUGE topic and most people seem to have differing views on quite a lot of it. Search the web and get onto Googles webmaster section as they have a discussion group.
In general -
Dynamic pages are bad for search engines. As your page page?a=1&b=2 looks like a different page to page?b=2&a=1 as the url is different, however we know that the page generated will be the same. So if a search engine indexes both pages then you get done for duplicate content. So to get around this people tend to use mod_rewrite to turn there dynamic pages into static looking ones. So in the emaple above you may link to page_1_2 and use mod_rewrite to turn that into page?a=1&b=2 for use with the php.
though SEO is constantly changing the basics stay the same. This is still one of the best threads around
Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone [webmasterworld.com]
and that's from 2002
another tip is that every forum here has a Library link in the upper right above the forum title. Such as the Library for this forum [webmasterworld.com] which has a ton of useful threads.
