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Re: Here's what the programmer guy said From Simon at UKSprite on 20 Feb '01 replying to Re: Here's what the programmer guy said posted by David A Just for interest, Google is indexing sites with ? in the URL. Although lots think this is a bad thing. With Apache server you can rewrite the URL so that http://www.yoursite.com/index.htm?query=test would become: http://www.yoursite.com/query/test/ in the background the last part of the URL would be interpreted as the query and loaded from the database. That way you can use a dynamic site and still have the contents indexed by search engines. I don't know how to do this with asp sites, but maybe your support people would. It could be worth asking.

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>Just for interest, Google is indexing sites with ? in the URL. Although lots think this is a bad thing. > >With Apache server you can rewrite the URL so that http://www.yoursite.com/index.htm?query=test > >would become: >http://www.yoursite.com/query/test/ > >in the background the last part of the URL would be interpreted as the query and loaded from the database. That way you can use a dynamic site and still have the contents indexed by search engines. > >I don't know how to do this with asp sites, but maybe your support people would. It could be worth asking.