? in URLaddress

[phiar]

Is it a fact that if you have a ? in your URL the search engines won't pick up your site?

--Phia:hi: :cheers: :cheers:

[Advisor]

No, that is a myth.

Jill

[Trafficdeveloper]

Google indexes pages with query strings, as does Alltheweb. You can make it easier for SEs though, by rewriting the URLs to eliminate any special characters. It depends on which platform you're using, but there are ways to clean up your URLs for search engine spiders. There are plenty of discussions on how to do this here.

Chris

[Alan Perkins]

Here's an article I wrote and Jill published on the subject:

Optimizing Dynamic Content (http://www.highrankings.com/issue022.htm#guest)