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Are these URLs search engine friendly?

ugly pages generated by CMS

         

fom2001uk

3:10 pm on Nov 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I've just had a look at one of our new sites in development, and I got a bit of a shock when I saw the URLs for the pages. Our CMS is producing URLs like :

oursite.com/indexpage323xy1.aspx?pageid=20
oursite.com/indexpage323xy1.aspx?pageid=25
oursite.com/indexpage323xy1.aspx?pageid=30

oursite.com/indexpage242xy1.aspx?pageid=10
oursite.com/indexpage242xy1.aspx?pageid=25

etc,

These URLs look ugly and that's bad enough, but are they spider friendly? I suspect they are okay, but wanted to confirm this.

fom2001uk

6:18 pm on Nov 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



and before someone says "if it works for Amazon",

we ain't Amazon ;-)

growingdigital

3:42 am on Nov 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



These URL's are fine. It's when you throw in multiple URL variables that the spiders start to choke.

Something like this

http://www.oursite.com/pageone.php?page=1&session=ABCDEFG&user=test
is harder for the spiders to follow because of the possibility of an infinite loop.