[ic] Removing '?' and '&' from the URL for search engine submission, Generate Static

[Dan Browning]

At 01:28 PM 4/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>At 01:00 PM 4/26/2002, you wrote:
>(snip)
>>Thanks, Christopher.  According to 
>>http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/01/23/index1a_page3.html?tw=e-business 
>>  , Google and Inktomi are the *only* search engines that can handle ? and &.
>>
>>So the way I see it, one has two choices:
>>  1. Static pages
>>  2. Change the URLs.
>>
>>Amazon does #2, in this fashion:
>>
>>amazon.com/store?shop=cd&sku= B00004WFIZ&ref=p_ir_m&sessionID= 
>>107-6571839-6268523
>>... become ...
>>amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ref= B00004WFIZ/ref=pd_ir_m/107-6571839-6268523
>>
>>So an Interchange-like similarity would be:
>>
>>http://site/checkout?id=AevUaQQ7&mv_pc=27
>>...becomes...
>>http://site/checkout/SPECIAL_URL/name=id/value=AevUaQQ7/name=mv_pc/value=27
>
>I've been playing around with this issue myself and hope to have
>something substantial to show for it in a couple weeks. As Mike
>told me on 11/7/2001, you can set [tmp mv_force_cache]1[/tmp]
>above your link(s) and interchange won't create any below that
>with mv_session_id (including process links, which are my main
>concern). I was in the process of writing a usertag to replace
>[page] for process links but haven't been too motivated to
>finish in the last month as google went through and indexed most
>of my dynamic pages. Google is fully capable of indexing them
>but the spider usually doesn't unless the pagerank is high
>enough for your site. This month it didn't index them though
>so I'm waiting to see if they will still be in the index. If
>not, I'll have to work overtime to finish rewriting these links
>to make them look static.
>
>Nick

Thanks for the input, Nick.  mv_force_cache works for forms (which already 
have ?...), but not for regular [area] links.  However, overriding the 
[page] and [area] tags might be worth looking into.


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