> > http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm?page=productSummary&catID=12
> >
> > however, most search engines will only index the index.cfm
> page sine
> > the remainder of the url is "dynamic".
>
> This seems to be a commonly voiced fear but searching on
> various search engines simply doesn't seem to back this up
> and I suspect that modern search engines *do* use the query
> string parameters just fine...
>
I have to agree. I've never had issues w/ search engines indexing my dynamic
sites. The only real use I've seen for shorter URLs is for simplicity's
sake. For example, at cflib.org we allow for www.cflib.org/udf.cfm/UDFNAME.
That way if you know the name you can quickly get to a UDF.
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