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Indexing issues with regularly-changing URLs

         

Mward

2:29 pm on Dec 12, 2009 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi all need some help

Site pages: 3 million
age: 8 years

Google doesn't seem to be listing my individual products very well. I
am wondering if it's because it uses a Id in the URL so the urls are
clean for example

/items/12346/mark.aspx

Obviously this number changes quite frequently. My other other option
is to adopt

/items/mark.aspx?id=12345

Then the base URL wouldn't *change.

Other issues include I can't get a sitemap for the whole site as it's
too big.

[edited by: encyclo at 1:28 pm (utc) on Dec. 13, 2009]
[edit reason] no links to personal sites please, see terms of service [/edit]

phranque

11:32 am on Dec 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

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welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], Mward!

are you serving canonical urls?
if you have several million pages of content and you are serving that content to several urls each the search engines will give up trying to sort that all out for you.

also, if you have a good information architecture and usable navigation with a quality url structure you should be in good shape to start with.
however, you can provide multiple xml sitemaps, perhaps broken down by category or some other manageable division.