OS commerce and google index

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OS commerce and google index

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wariental

9:40 pm on Sep 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hello, we have a new OS commerce website built for us and are confused by google guidelines as to how to make your webpage google friendly.

As it states on the google guidelines
"Don't use "&id=" as a parameter in your URLs, as we don't include these pages in our index."

Yet we find site such as
www.abmmxncnvnd.com/info/index.jsp?categoryId=2435445&backTo=711657&infoType=infosport
indexed on the google search engine.

Doe the statement above apply only to the tag "&id="?

Are we going to be fine being indexed if we have ID's but no "&id=" tags?

Sorry this is kind of confusing. It is my first time optimizing for an commerce website and it uses a lot of dynamic php.

Need an answer fast. Let me know if this doesn't make anysense I will try to rephrase.

jtara

10:31 pm on Sep 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

I sure have no idea what they are talking about.

I went to the guidelines pages where they mention this, thinking there would be more information.

Nope. Just that cryptic bullet point...

FalseDawn

12:40 am on Sep 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

They are referring specifically to the "&id" parameter - all others will be fine, although you should be looking at using a "friendly URL" module if using osCommerce.

I guess it's because "&id=" is often used to pass session IDs, and sites that do not explicitly disallow session creation for bots often end up with lots of these links in the index, which is potentially a security problem for badly scripted sites (session leakage).

[edited by: FalseDawn at 12:42 am (utc) on Sep. 8, 2006]