My site, www.enlightened-traveller.co.uk has many dynamic pages. It has a GPR of 3, whereas a static site I
built myself, and launched 6 months later, already has GPR 4.
I understand that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages
as well as static pages. Thus my interest in URL rewriting.
My questions are:
1. Would you advise me to do this?
2. My site is not hosted on single but a mulltiple site server - so is
it possible to do anyway?
3. Can it be done via some free software or is it a big job? If so,
what are the costs?
4. Are there any risks to doing this in respect of endangering current
Google rankings?
As far as I know, none of the major SE's has any problems with
'common' dynamic URLs.
It's only if you have strange characters in the URLs that you may bget
issues (such as + etc.) ... and then it makes little/no difference if
it's dynamic or static!
Though it appears that friendlier URLs may have some influence in the
SERPs, it's apparently very very very minor and not really worth too
much hassle.
It's more to do with 2 other things.
1) inbound link text - if people simply use the URL, then ensuring you
hve clear text that contains certain terms may be of some use.
2) helps users get a better grasp of the page.
Considering that... it's not jsut removing some of the 'parameters'
from the URLs... it would be replacing the 'junky' content and putting
in informative versions.
You could do this sort of thing through the server... but I think it
would make more sense for your system to handle such tings internally
employing some form of encode/decode and/or data-driven content
fetching (look at the URL, grab the URL, look in the DB for a title
that matches, serve the content).
Either way works so long as it's done properly.
But none of it should make that much difference to indexing.
Also, yes, there are some 'dangers'.
If you go and 'change' urls... then you would be best advised to 'map'
the urls out and employ server based 301 redirects.
That way, anyone using the old URLs will get forwarded to the new URL
instead.
This includes inbound links and bots etc.
> Also, yes, there are some 'dangers'.
> If you go and 'change' urls... then you would be best advised to 'map'
> the urls out and employ server based 301 redirects.
> That way, anyone using the old URLs will get forwarded to the new URL
> instead.
> This includes inbound links and bots etc.
