On Thursday 09 Feb 2006 15:15, Gili wrote: > You misunderstood. I wasn't saying you should be removing parameters. I > was suggesting you canonicalize them. That is, if a user hits: > foo.html?a=1&b=2&c=3 but this is identical to foo.html?a=1 (because b=2 > and c=3 are default values) than you need to issue a HTTP redirect from > foo.html?a=1 to foo.html?a=1&b=2&c=3. >
I really don't understand what you are getting at here? When would you ever want to pass default values to a page? I cannot see this situation ever arising. Parameters are generally passed to the page for a reason ie they affect what is displayed. > Google's guidelines specifically says: > > "Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments > that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for > tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is > entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete > indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that > look different but actually point to the same page." > > which implies you should not rely upon Sessions for crawler indexing > (in fact, I have read that most crawlers will outright reject any URLs > that make use of sessions). Isn't that what I just wrote? > I'm saying that you should focus on ensuring > all BookmarkablePages expose canonicalized paths and redirect pages with > "equivilent" parameter values to those canonicalized paths. > That is exactly what does NOT happen when you pass parameters in the URL path. Google assumes that they are different pages with similar (note: not identical) content and punishes your ass. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
