On Friday 10 Feb 2006 01:04, Gili wrote: > For example, if you have a multi-page image gallery, specifying page=0 > would be optional, since it is the default page that gets viewed unless > you specify otherwise. >
Again, generally all parameters passed to a page are passed for a reason - they alter the page content. > Not if you use HTTP redirect. You can have multiple pages with > identical content if all duplicates redirect to the canonical URL. From > Google's point of view, it only sees one URL (the canonical one) and it > disregards any pages which redirect. You have missed the point. I was not talking about pages with identical content. If you read my post carefully you will see that I talk about pages that are significantly similar but NOT identical. Such pages MUST have different URLs but perhaps 90% of the content may be the same. Here is an example: /showRecord/id/123/userName/Gili /showRecord/id/123/userName/John Every parameter is used to change the displayed page. These pages would show mostly the same content but would only differ in the user name displayed. Google would see these as duplicate pages but they *cannot* have the same URL. If one used the form: /showRecord?id=123&userName=John Or even better: /showRecord/id/123?userName=John Then Google will recognise that the page is dynamic and will not penalise your site. The major search engines no longer have a problem indexing such pages. I now use this second hybrid form and traffic has returned to normal. From reading SEO news groups I know that others have had the same problem with duplicate content penalties after Google's "Jagger" update. Hope this helps clarify the problem with passing parameters in the path. John ------------------------------------------------------- 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
